Electrical Mountains

The major mountain ranges of the world exist in areas with a lot of geological activity. Earthquakes are common where mountains are plentiful. That makes it logical to conclude that mountains are in fact the result of geological activity.

However, some mountains exist in areas with little geological activity, and the peculiar shape and form of some of these suggest that something other than earthquakes may have formed them.

An interesting theory regarding such mountains is that they may have been formed quite rapidly in catastrophic electrical events. Return strikes of lightning on sandy beaches are known to draw sand up into petrified structures. In the case of tremendous lightning strikes of catastrophic proportions, entire mountains may be produced.

Devil's Tower

By Nathaniel H. Darton - U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library, Public Domain, Link