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What makes uplifted mountains fault-block mountains and hot-spot volcanoes different from other mountains?
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they are different in the way that they are formed.
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What is responsible for the continued uplift of many major mountain ranges?
Mountains are uplifted as tectonic plates smash into each other or magma rises up from under volcanoes.
What type of mountains are generally made up of undeformed rocks?
uplifted mountains
What is a generic term for clouds that form as moist air is uplifted over mountains?
Orographic Clouds
True or false a mountain formed by blocks of rock uplifted by normal faults are called dome mountains?
False. These are called Horst mountains.
How are uplifted mountains formed?
A upwarped mountain is a mountain consisting of a broad area of the Earth's crust that has moved gently upward without much apparent deformation, and usually containing sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks
What makes uplifted mountains and fault block mountains different from other mountains?
they are different in the way that they are formed.
What are two types of mountains that can form far from plate boundaries?
fault-block mountains and uplifted mountains
How do mountains get uplifted?
compression
What is responsible for the continued uplift of many major mountain ranges?
Mountains are uplifted as tectonic plates smash into each other or magma rises up from under volcanoes.
The Adirondack Mountains in New York State are examples of?
uplifted mountains
What type of mountains are generally made up of undeformed rock?
uplifted mountains
What type of mountains are generally made up of undeformed rocks?
uplifted mountains
What is the definition of folded mountains?
Folded Mountains are mountains formed when rock layers crumble and bend and are uplifted.
How long ago were the taconic mountains uplifted?
The Taconic Mountains were uplifted approximately 440 million years ago during the Ordovician period.
High uplifted areas of land are?
mountains hills things like that
When huge regions of crust are faulted and uplifted at the same time?
fault-block mountains are formed
What is a generic term for clouds that form as moist air is uplifted over mountains?
Orographic Clouds
