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What type of mountain is formed when the earth's crust is squeezed together?
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Fold mountains.
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What type of mountain is formed when the earths crust is squeezed together?
It depends on the type of plates coming together but two continental plates will form a mountain chain. An example would be the Indian sub-continent colliding with Asia to form the Himalayas.
A sedimentary rock formed when rock fragments are squeezed together is called a?
clastic rock
What kind of rock is pressed and squeezed together?
When land is sqeezed together it is because tectonic plate are moving and crashing into each other. When the plates ceash into each other they can create a mountain. But if they rubb up against each other they can create a earthquake.
Folds in earths crust form mostly?
Well, mountains are formed mostly with folding and sometimes with volcanic eruptions. MOUNT EVERST was formed by the folding of the ocean. Folding is when the earth's crustal plates start to push together to form a mountain.
What type of mountain is the only one that is formed by adding new material to the earths suface?
It is an active volcano.
What type of mountain is formed when the earth's crust squeezed together?
Fold mountains.
What type of mountain is formed when the earths crust is squeezed together?
It depends on the type of plates coming together but two continental plates will form a mountain chain. An example would be the Indian sub-continent colliding with Asia to form the Himalayas.
How do mountain landforms form?
mountains are formed by 2 plates pushing together so hard that they create a wrinkle in earths crust
What type of mountain is formed when lava reaches the earths surface and piles up?
A volcanic mountain.
What kind of mountain range formed when rock layers are squeezed and forced up ward?
tectonic plates
How was sugarloaf mountain in Brazil formed?
due to the earths crust fool.
A sedimentary rock formed when rock fragments are squeezed together is called a?
clastic rock
Landforms formed when horizontal rock layers are squeezed together and buckle?
folded mountains
What landforms formed when horizontal rock layers are squeezed together and buckle?
folded mountains
Description of a fold mountain?
Folded mountains form when rock layers are squeezed together and pushed upward. If you take a pile of paper on a table top and push on opposite edges of the pile, you will see how a folded mountain forms. They can appear crunched up together. They are ranges that are formed at a convergent boundary.
What kind of mountain range is formed when layers are squeezed and forced upward?
Volcanic Mountains Folded Mountains to be correct!
What is a titty crack?
It is a recent term regarding cleavage--formed by two breasts squeezed together.
