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Volcanic mountain ranges are formed from oceanic-continental convergent-subduction boundaries, much like with volcanic islands. When a plate is subducted, the crust forming this plate is heated and melted creating magma which erupts from the crust and creates volcanic mountain ranges.

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What type of mountains form at convergent boundaries where to oceanic plates meet?

Oceanic-continental convergent boundaries form mountains with a volcanic origin, such as the Andes in South America. Oceanic-oceanic convergent boundaries create volcanic island arcs, like the Japanese archipelago.


What type of mountain is formed with little deformation?

A volcanic mountain is typically formed with little deformation. These mountains are the result of volcanic activity where magma rises to the surface and solidifies, creating a distinct conical shape. Volcanic mountains tend to have gentle slopes and are often found near tectonic plate boundaries or hotspots.


What type of fault does not form mountains?

A transform fault does not typically form mountains. Transform faults are characterized by horizontal motion and sliding past each other, so they do not promote vertical displacement that creates mountains like convergent or divergent boundaries do.


What type of boundary is compression stress found at?

Compression stress is found at convergent boundaries, where two tectonic plates are moving towards each other. This stress can result in the formation of mountains, deep ocean trenches, and volcanic arcs.


What type of volcanic eruptions seems to occur most often where plates are crunching together?

Stratovolcanoes are usually found along convergent plate boundaries where an ocean plate is pushed under another ocean plate or a continental plate (subduction zone). If you are referring to convergent boundaries in which neither plate is subducted but both are pushed up to form mountains, then my answer would have to be that it is very rare for a volcano to form at this type of boundary.

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What type of boundaries creates mountains?

Volcanic mountain ranges are formed from oceanic-continental convergent-subduction boundaries, much like with volcanic islands. When a plate is subducted, the crust forming this plate is heated and melted creating magma which erupts from the crust and creates volcanic mountain ranges.


What type of plate movement creates folding mountains?

Mountains form along convergent boundaries when 2 plates collide. These are also called colliding boundaries.


What type of mountains form at convergent boundaries where to oceanic plates meet?

Oceanic-continental convergent boundaries form mountains with a volcanic origin, such as the Andes in South America. Oceanic-oceanic convergent boundaries create volcanic island arcs, like the Japanese archipelago.


What is Aleutian- type mountains?

A chain of volcanic mountains


What type of mountain is formed with little deformation?

A volcanic mountain is typically formed with little deformation. These mountains are the result of volcanic activity where magma rises to the surface and solidifies, creating a distinct conical shape. Volcanic mountains tend to have gentle slopes and are often found near tectonic plate boundaries or hotspots.


What type of mountains are formed when molten rock erupts onto earth surface?

volcanic mountains


What two different types of convergent boundaries occur?

Oceanic-continental convergent boundaries occur when oceanic plates subduct beneath continental plates, creating deep ocean trenches and volcanic arcs. Oceanic-oceanic convergent boundaries occur when two oceanic plates collide, leading to one plate subducting beneath the other and forming volcanic island arcs.


What type of fault does not form mountains?

A transform fault does not typically form mountains. Transform faults are characterized by horizontal motion and sliding past each other, so they do not promote vertical displacement that creates mountains like convergent or divergent boundaries do.


What type of plate boundary form of mountains?

Mountains form at convergent plate boundaries.


What type of volcano commonly develops to form large volcanic mountains?

Composite volcanos commonly develop to form large volcanic mountains.


What type of boundary is compression stress found at?

Compression stress is found at convergent boundaries, where two tectonic plates are moving towards each other. This stress can result in the formation of mountains, deep ocean trenches, and volcanic arcs.


What type os mountains form at convergent boundaries where two oceanic plates meet?

Volcanic island arcs form at convergent boundaries where two oceanic plates meet. This is because as the two plates collide, one plate is subducted beneath the other, leading to the melting of the mantle and the formation of volcanic activity. Over time, these volcanic eruptions can build up to create a chain of volcanic islands.