answersLogoWhite

0

Do volcanoes form mountains

Updated: 8/10/2023
User Avatar

Reece Hermann

Lvl 10
4y ago

Best Answer

Some mountains are volcanic. It would be more accurate to say, in such cases, that the volcano formed a mountain, than to say that it formed on a mountain.

User Avatar

Lisa Schaefer

Lvl 10
2y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago

Technically, no. not all mountains and islands are created by volcanoes. They can be created by movement of the tectonic plates. You see, there can be different collisions with tectonic plates: They can be oceanic-continental collisions, oceanic-oceanic collisions, and continental-continental collisions. Usually, the denser plate get pushed down in the collision into the upper mantle of magma (below the oceanic plate) and can create many land, and oceanic forms. Such as a series of volcanoes, mountains, etc. Sometimes this can be the case for islands too. So no, volcanoes did not create all mountains and islands. However, they do make a lot of the islands and mountains that we see today. This happens by the magma spewing out of the volcano through vents, and of course the top. Once the lava hardens, it creates a new layer of rock, therefore making itself bigger. Some mountains, and islands can be the result of this.

I hope this helped to answer your questions

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

Yes! The Hawaiian Islands are still growing now due to lava flows.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

A volcano cannot create another volcano it can create another mountain, but a volcano takes years to form.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

Yes, when an underwater volcano erupts, the lava is cooled in the water forming stone, this can build up to form an island. The Hawaiian islands are a good example.

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Do volcanoes form mountains
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

What do volcanoes form?

Mountains


What kind of volcanoes form mountains?

shield volcanoes


Are volcano's mountains?

Not all volcanoes are mountains though most do form mountains. Some volcanoes form as simple fissures in the ground. There is a so-called supervolcano in Yellowstone that, does not take the form of a mountain. Kimberlite volcanoes also erupt too violently to form mountains.


What form divergent?

They form trenches, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis.


Can a volcano form a mountain?

Yes. Many volcanoes form mountains.


Is forming underwater mountains and volcanoes convergent divergent or transform?

Underwater volcanoes and mountains can form at both convergent and divergent boundaries.


Do volcanoes create new landforms such as mountains?

Yes. They can form volcanic mountains .


How do divergent boundaries form volcanoes?

no yes and symp


What happens at colliding boundries?

subduction happens and mountains and volcanoes form


How and why do volcanoes erupt and do they form the same way mountains do?

i don't knw


What do two oceanic plates that collide form?

eigther volcanoes or mountains


What do Divergent forms?

They form trenches, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis.