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What is a example of a fault-block mountain?
the Himalayasi need a example of fault block mountains(The himalayas are NOT fault block mountains , they are fold mountains.)
What types of mountains are formed by volcanic activity?
Volcanic activity can form fold mountains or block mountains. Fold mountains are formed when tectonic plates collide. Block mountains are formed when fault block shifts.
Different kinds of mountain?
Fold Mountains (Folded Mountains)Fault-block Mountains (Block Mountains)Dome MountainsVolcanic MountainsPlateau Mountains
What are the four types of mountain?
fault block mountains, volcanic mountains, fold mountains, dome mountains
What two types of mountains form by volcanic activity?
Volcanic activity can form fold mountains or block mountains. Fold mountains are formed when tectonic plates collide. Block mountains are formed when fault block shifts.
Are the Alps folded volcanic or fault block?
Fault Block. That is wrong, they are fold mountains, they were formed on a weakening in the plate, and millions of years ago the plate was under pressure and then it buckled and the Rockies were formed.
Which two types of plate boundary forms volcanoes?
Fault Block mountains such as the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and Fold & Thrust Mountains such as the Himalayans.
Describe how the various mountains are categorized?
Mountains are categorized based on their elevation and prominence. The categories include major mountain ranges, individual peaks, volcanic mountains, and subranges based on geographical location. Mountains can also be classified by geological features such as fold mountains, block mountains, dome mountains, and volcanic mountains.
Fold-and-thrust belts are commonly associated with fault-block mountains?
No, so that is false.
What is the difference between folded mountains and volcanic mountains and fault block mountains?
volcanic mountains can increase in size but fold mountain cant
What kind of stress forms fault block mountains?
Fold-block mountains form when tension makes the lithosphere break into many normal faults.
What do you call mountains formed by blocks of crust moving along a fault?
Mountains made of crumpled and folded layers of rock are called fold mountains. The breaking down of materials of Earth's crust into smaller pieces is weathering.
