Quran and Plate Tectonics (Mountains)
Quran Talk Blog · Article · August 26, 2022
The Earth’s crust comprises seven large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving for about the last 3.4 billion years. This field of science is known as plate tectonics and became the accepted model of the Earth around the 1960s, which was heavily influenced by the proliferation of satellite technology.
As explained by an article from Live Sciences:
Developed from the 1950s to the 1970s, the theory of plate tectonics is the modern update to continental drift, an idea first proposed by scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912 which stated that Earth’s continents had “drifted” across the planet over time. Wegener didn’t have an explanation for how continents could move around the planet, but researchers do now: Plate tectonics.
Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into large slabs of solid rock, called “plates,” that glide over Earth’s mantle, the rocky inner layer above Earth’s core. Earth’s solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, is called the lithosphere. It is 100 km (60 miles) thick, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere — a viscous layer kept malleable by heat deep within the Earth. It lubricates the undersides of Earth’s tectonic plates, allowing the lithosphere to move around.
https://www.livescience.com/37706-what-is-plate-tectonics.html
When two plates collide or diverge, mountain ranges are formed.
The Quran described this phenomenon 1400 years ago by describing the mountains as stabilizers/anchors (رَوَاسِيَ) as well as stakes/pegs (أَوْتَادًا).
Did we not make the earth habitable? And the mountains as pegs?