How are mountains and volcanoes form?

Anonymous

∙ 14y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

Volcanoes form because in the earth's mantle there are some spots where it is especially thin and in these areas lava can pour out and form a volcano. A mountain is formed by two or more of the earth's titanic plates pushing against each other.

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∙ 14y ago

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What kind of volcanoes form mountains?

shield volcanoes

What do volcanoes form?

Mountains

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.

Can a volcano form a mountain?

Yes. Many volcanoes form mountains.

What form divergent?

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

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?