{"id":30337,"date":"2025-02-24T03:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30337"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:27:01","slug":"zagros-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/zagros-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Zagros Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Zagros Mountains Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, a geologist said that a hilly area surrounding the Zagros Mountains in Iraq is being pulled into Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Zagros Mountains<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a major mountain <strong>range in Central Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Formation of Zagros Mountains:<\/strong> Scientists estimate that these Mountains were formed during <strong>orogenic episodes <\/strong>triggered by the <strong>sliding of the Arabian Plate<\/strong> underneath the <strong>Eurasian Plate<\/strong> during the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs.<\/li>\n<li>Historically, the Zagros Mountains have acted as a <strong>natural barrier betweenseveral cultures andempires<\/strong> of the ancient and modern worlds alike.<\/li>\n<li>It extends for a distance of 1,500 kilometers in a <strong>northwest to southeast direction<\/strong> from the border areas between <strong>eastern Turkey<\/strong> and <strong>northern Iraq<\/strong> across the Iranian Plateau, ending at the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest Peak:Mount Dena,<\/strong> with a peak achieving an elevation of 14,465 feet, is the highest peak in the Zagros Mountain system.<\/li>\n<li>The most commonly seen geological structural materials of the Zagros Mountains are <strong>Limestone and shale rocks<\/strong> from the Mesozoic Era and Paleogene Period.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate of Zagros Mountains:<\/strong> A <strong>semi-arid temperateclimate<\/strong> prevails in the region, wherein the bitter winters are severely cold and experience deadly temperatures drop, while summers are highly arid.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation of Zagros Mountains: <\/strong>It consists of temperate broad-leaved forests, dominated by oak and pistachio trees, as well as dense ground covers of steppe vegetation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Zagros Mountains FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> Why are the Zagros Mountains so important?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The mountains are an imposing natural barrier and have traditionally provided the boundary between cultural and political entities, including the early Mesopotamian and Median cultures, the Parthian and Roman empires.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> What is the ancient city in the Zagros Mountains?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Susa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.<\/strong> What lies between Elburz and Zagros?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Iranian plateau lies between elbruz and zagros mountains ranges<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/iraq-slowly-sinking-into-earth-9848939\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zagros Mountains is a major mountain range in Central Asia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}