Types of Mountains

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Most Mountains are Formed at

Convergent Plate Boundaries

Three Convergent Plate Collisions

Types of Mountains

Volcanic

FoldedFault-Block

Upwarped

Folded Mountains

-Created by continental/continental plate

collisions

-Form the highest

mountains

-Himilayas are a type

of folded mountain

Fault-Block Mountains

-Created when blocks of rock drop down

compared to other blocks

-Can form narrow valleys

-Basin and Range

mountains are fault-block

Upwarped Mountains

-Created when molten rock rises up in the crust

and pushes layers of rock up above it

-Can also create domes

-Rockies are upwarped

Volcanic Mountains

-Formed when magma spills and hardens on

the Earth’s crust

-Can grow with multiple eruptions

-The Sierra Nevada are

volcanic mountains