What is a mountain that is a fault-block mountain?

Answer 1

These mountains form when faults or cracks in the earth's crust force some materials or blocks of rock up and others down.

Instead of the earth folding over, the earth's crust fractures (pulls apart). It breaks up into blocks or chunks. Sometimes these blocks of rock move up and down, as they move apart and blocks of rock end up being stacked on one another.

Answer 2

The Sierra Nevada mountain range in California is a classic example of a fault-block mountain. This range was formed by the uplifting and tilting of large blocks of the Earth's crust along fault lines, resulting in steep, rugged terrain with dramatic elevation changes.

Answer 3

the faul-block mountains are made of huge tilted blocks of rock that are separated from surrounding rock by fault

Answer 4

Mountains can be made of all three rock types: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.

Answer 5

Block Mountain.