How Mountains Are Formed
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Mountains are formed over long periods of time by forces of the earth.
Mountains just don’t appear in any place. Most are formed when plates, or
huge pieces of the Earth’s crust, pull and push against each other. Great
mountain ranges are formed by the movement of tectonic pl ....
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.... are the
Rockies, Himalayas, Appalayas, and the Andes. Fault-block mountains are
formed when one plate pushes or pulls away from another plate. In the Earth,
hot currents of magma or molten rock may well up and crack the weakened
crust above. As the crust cracks, blocks of rock rise or fall forming
Fault-block mountains. Examples of these mountains are the Sierra Nevada in
California and the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. Dome mountains are formed
by the same kind of molten rock that forms V ....
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