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Mount Kinabalu

Inselbergs and Crystalline Monoliths

Mount Kinabalu rises on the island of Borneo in Sabah, Malaysia, reaching an elevation of about 4,095 meters, the highest peak in Malaysia and all of Maritime Southeast Asia. It is a massive granodiorite pluton that intruded into surrounding sedimentary and ultrabasic rock as molten material millions of years ago, with the granodiorite itself cooling and hardening only about 10 million years ago, geologically young for a mountain of its size; the mountain continues to rise by roughly 5 millimeters a year through ongoing uplift. During the Pleistocene epoch about 100,000 years ago it was extensively glaciated, and those ancient glaciers carved the 1,800-meter-deep Low's Gully on its northern slope, still visible today. This entity documents Mount Kinabalu specifically as a geological formation, a young granodiorite pluton still actively rising.

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Protected Status
UNESCO World Heritage Site 1
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Granite, Materials
Source Mount Kinabalu (Wikipedia)
Pleistocene, Eras
Source Mount Kinabalu (Wikipedia)

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Glaciation, Processes
Source Mount Kinabalu (Wikipedia)
Orogeny, Processes

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Kinabalu

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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Kinabalu
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Source Wikidata: Mount Kinabalu
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1. Mount Kinabalu (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia article lead, protection designation
    ct, West Coast Division of Sabah, Malaysia. It is protected as Kinabalu Park, a World Heritage Site.
  • Associated With: Granite, Article text, rock Granite
    As these glaciers flowed down its slopes, they scoured the surface of Mount Kinabalu in the process and creating the 1,800-metre-deep (5,900 ft) Low's Gully (named after Hugh Low) on its north side. Its granitic composition and the glacial formative processes are readily apparent when viewing its craggy, rocky peaks.
  • Caused By: Glaciation, Article text, process Glaciation
    Its granitic composition and the glacial formative processes are readily apparent when viewing its craggy, rocky peaks.
  • Associated With: Pleistocene, Article text, age Pleistocene
    It is still gaining roughly 5 mm (0.20 in) of height per year. During the Pleistocene Epoch of about 100,000 years ago, the mountain was covered by sheets of ice and glaciers.
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Wikidata: Mount Kinabalu
Wikidata Q60967, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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