The mountains formed about three million years ago in the late Pliocene epoch and are the result of an uplifted block of crystalline rocks including gneiss, amphibolite, granite and quartzite. Mount Stanley has several subsidiary summits, with Margherita Peak being the highest point.
Stanley is a fault block mountain rising between two rifts in the African Rift System. They were formed within the past 10 million years and contain gneiss and quartzite.
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The reference to Mount Rwenzori as Mountains of the Moon came from Greek explorers trying to locate the source of the Nile. A merchant called Diogenes reported that the source of the Nile came from a group of mountains which the indigenes of the land called Mountains of the Moon because of their snow-capped whiteness.
What is the highest peak of Mountain Rwenzori?
Mountain Rwenzori is the only block mountain in Uganda. The Rwenzori mountains also known as 'mountains of the moon' are found on the border of Uganda and Democratic republic of Congo situated in the eastern rift valley. It's the third highest mountain in Africa.
Kilimanjaro has long been crowned by a cap of snow and ice, though it has been shrinking. Skiiers travel for natural and manufactured snow in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria, as well as a few spots in South Africa and Lesotho. Nonetheless, snow on the edge of the Sahara Desert is rare.
Formation of rwenzori: The Mountains formed about three million years ago in the late Pliocene epoch and are the result of an uplifted block of crystalline rocks including gneiss, amphibolites, granite and quartzite.
There are no organised Uganda ski areas and indeed the country very rarely sees any snow, but the country's Ruwenzori Mountains, which lie along the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are some of the highest on the continent reaching heights of up to 5,109m (16,761 feet) and have glaciers on their upper
