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25) How Mountains Are Formed

Updated: Jun 30

Volcanic Mountians

Volcanic Mountains, such as Washington's Mount Rainer and Japan's Mount Fuji, from when molten rock from deep within Earth erupt and piles up on the surface. As a result, volcanic mountains consist chiefly of igneous rock.





Plateau Mountains

Plateau Mountains occur in serus when the folds of a mountain chain pass abruptly into the

horizontal start of a basalt plateau that is largely denuded of trees and eroded. these lopographonic forms are, however really pseudo mountains that areprodeced by the ersion of a plateau - for example, the Catskill Mountains of New York. these examples occur in association with major plateau of the world, such as the Colorado and Tibet plateau and the Altiplanos of South America.













Fold Mountains

Fold Mountains such as the Himalayas that were formed millions of years ago. Fold Mountains are formed when two plates hit each other.






-Vihaan Shah


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