Talk:Tepui

message: More information please.  The article says "Kukenam Tepui...can no longer be climbed, as the precipice and the high plateau are particularly insurmountable."  Either it is or it isn't insurmountable -- no qualifier is possible here.  Is there a reason why it can no longer be climbed (a law, perhaps) or just that folks have given up trying (unlikely)? Xuehxolotl 23:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insurmountable? 

message: Some of the most outstanding tepuis are Autana, Pico da Neblina (the highest one, on the Venezuelan-Brazil border)
But, the Pico da Neblina article states it is NOT a tepui. Anyone can solve this? 85.243.174.167 19:19, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it or is it not? 

message: "They are typically composed of sheer blocks of Precambrian sandstone or quartzite rocks"
If the Tepuis are comprised of sedimentary rocks then they are certainly not the "oldest exposed rocks in the world", as the article claims. Exposed granites in Canada are likely older. Any Geologists care to correct?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.173.195.29 (talk) 19:54, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconding this. Can anyone clarify the age of these things, please? -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 21:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Oldest Rocks?

message: What distinguishes a tepui from a mesa?  The beginning of the article suggests that a tepui is a kind of mesa.  But then it says tepuis are found only in that area of South America.  Mesas certainly are found in many more places.  The article on mesa doesn't even mention tepuis.  140.147.164.38 (talk) 21:15, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tepui and Mesa? 

message: The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle: If I remember correctly, he says that Maple White Land (i.e., the tepui with the dinosaurs) is (a) made of basalt and (b) contains active volcanic processes. This has nothing to do with real tepui geology, right? -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 22:04, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Geology" of tepui in The Lost World

message: It seems to me, an amateur geologist at best, that there many similarities between the South American Tepui sandstone plateau formations, and the sandstone plateau formations that are found in the West African (notably Guinea, Sierra Leone, etc.) mountains. The Massif de Tamgue has many similar examples of this sort of mountain formation. If you do a Google image search for "Fouta Djalon" (a mountain in the Massif de Tamgue range), you can see many examples of this, for instance. 
Because of the tectonic activity, the region of South America that would be where the Tepui formations are found (Venezuela and vicinity) would have at one time been connected in roughly the same place in West Africa as these almost identical formations that are found. If this is so, if the mountains of these two ranges were at one time connected and produced by the same geological forces, it would be nice to make a note of that in this article. --Saukkomies talk  14:28, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Same geological feature as Massif de Tamgue in Guinea?

message: I'm intrigued to see no mention of the tepuis as Sky islands. Is there a distinction that I am missing here, or is the omission unintentional? It certainly seems to possess many of the characteristics.-108.14.124.212 (talk) 23:05, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why a tepui shouldn't be considered a sky island. Kortoso  (talk) 21:27, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classifiable as sky islands? 

message: BBC's Explorer: The last Tepui is missing. It is about exploring Tepui's wild life (frogs) and climbing (the way to get there) with Alex Honnold and Bruce Means. Hvstms (talk) 21:24, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture addition