MOUNTAIN AS PEGS? Yes, it is!
Scientists & Geologists believe that mountains stabilize the earth's crust. If a small building needs a base called a foundation to make the structure stable on the earth, then they declared that mountains function like a peg upon the earth.
1) According to Dr. Frank Press, in his book ‘Earth’ he says “……..the mountains play an important role in stabilizing the crust of the earth……”.
2) “Andre Cailleux and J. Moody Stuart, Anatomy of the Earth (McGraw-Hill Companies: 1968), Pg 220.), states that “….. Mountains, like pegs, have deep roots embedded in the ground…”
3) According to Professor Siaveda, a world-renowned underwater geologist, “….by fixing the Earth's crust they prevent any sliding over the magma layer or amongst the layers themselves. In short, mountains can be compared to nails holding strips of wood together. The fixing effect of mountains is known as isostasy in scientific literature….”
4) G.B. Airy in 1855 suggested that mountains have a deep root of lower-density rock which the plains lack. Four years after Airy published his work, J.H Pratt offered an alternative hypothesis... By this hypothesis rock columns below mountains must have a lower density, because of their greater length, than shorter rock columns beneath plains. Both Airy and Pratt's hypotheses imply that surface irregularities are balanced by differences in the density of rocks below the major features (mountains & plains) of the crust. This state of BALANCE is described as the concept of ISOSTASY.
Thus Geology proved that mountains are like pegs.
5. Surprisingly, this truth was revealed by Allah in the 6th century. Quran declares that Allah has placed upon the earth's surface mountains firm (21:31, 16:15, 13:3, 79:32,15:19, 88:19) as the pegs (78:6-7) so that the earth should not shake (16:19, 21:31). In the second two stages during the creation of Earth, Allah placed upon the surface of the Earth firmly set mountains, He placed on the earth firm mountains, tall mountain (77:20) as pegs (78:6) lest it should shake with its inhabitants. Quran is so clear in this regard.
