The standard deduction is $8,700 for the 2012 tax year if you file as the head of a household. Filers using the single or married filing separately statuses have a standard deduction of $5,950. If you use your standard deduction, the head of household status lets you avoid taxes on an extra $2,750 of your income.
Nothing but grey. The mountain ranges that form the backbone of New Zealand are made of ancient greywacke, which is being rapidly uplifted and eroded. Boulders in many of the rivers are made almost entirely of this rock. If you identify a grey rock as greywacke, there is a good chance you will be correct. hard rain. New Zealandâs heavy annual rainfall has helped shape the mountains. More than 10,000 millimetres fall on the western side of the Southern Alps, south of Hokitika. Much of the alps, Fiordland and the north-west ranges receive over 3,200 millimetres.
Mountains are formed over long periods of time by forces of the earth. Mountains just don&#8217;t appear in any place. Most are formed when plates, or. huge pieces of the Earth&#8217;s crust, pull and push against each other. Great. mountain ranges are formed by the movement of tectonic plates. Convection. currents deep in the mantle of the earth, begins to well up towards the. surface. As the pressure increases, it sets the crustal plates in motion. There are different kinds of mountains - Volcanic, Folded, Fault-block, and. Dome mountains.