The ancient Central Asian Orogenic Belt formed during a period of extensive continental crust formation ... which extends from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east ...

As the tectonic plates that make up Earth's surface ... several mountain ranges —including the Appalachian Mountains in the United States and the Ural Mountains in Russia —have survived ...

In the 18th century, Swedish military officer Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg proposed that the Ural Mountains be considered ... argued that trying to define continental borders definitively ...

Part of the tusk of a steppe mammoth was found during an an expedition in the Ural Mountains in the Prikamye ... just some kind of plate of tusks. "But the excavation revealed its true size.