What type of mountain is Mt McKinley?

Answer 1

Usually any mountain with the Mount before it is a Volcano. Like Mount ST. Helens, Mt. Rainer, or Mt. McKliney

Consider Mount Kennedy, named for U.S. President John Kennedy, a 13,000 ft. peak in western Canada, (first climbed by his brother Robert in 1965.)

Mt. McKinley is forming by the continuing collision of enormous plates of the surface of the earth. Alaskan geology is complex; much of it's land area drifted across the Pacific Ocean and became Alaska when it ran into larger plates. Now the Pacific plate is moving northwesterly into and under various northern plates creating in Alaska and Canada the largest peaks in North America. Earthquake fault lines mark the plate boundaries.

Answer 2

Mt McKinley, also known as Denali, is a pluton. A pluton is a body of igneous rock that was crystallized below the surface of the earth.

In the case of Mt McKinley, this igneous rock was pulled up from below the earth's surface by tectonic pressure.

Answer 3

Mount McKinley is not a volcano. It is simply a mountain.