Formation of Mountains
How are mountains formed?
Formation of Mountains
Mountains are the earth’s surfaces that are elevated above the normal earth’s crust. They are distinguished by their rising steep slope and their excessive heights.
Now, mountains are natural landforms. Therefore, their formation is nothing unnatural. They are all formed due to something occurring on the earth or below its surface.
To understand the formation, let’s take an example first.
If we take two notebooks side by side and started exerting force from both sides what will happen? One of the notebooks might slide upwards and above the other notebook right, or one might simply get folded if it is not a hard bind. This is the simple demonstration of what happens beneath the earth’s surface that causes the mountains to form.
There are three types of mountains. Each of them is formed differently.
1. Block Mountain
These mountains are formed simply when a block/ fault-block is raised.
This happens when the tectonic plates present on the earth’s surface tend to move away from each other due to an acting force or other. When it does, it leaves gaps between them. These gaps, when occurring in a parallel level, make the surface in between act as a separated block. This block is free to move. Hence, when this block rises upwards due to forces of nature block mountains are formed.
2. Fold Mountains:
These mountains, as the name suggests are nothing but folded earth surface, risen from the earth’s surface. This happens when the tectonic plates present on the earth’s surface tend to move towards each other and create a pushing force on one another. When it does this, the layers of rocks and earth surface that are not too hard start to form folds. These folds are nothing but an upward bending of the earth’s surface. With time, it stiffens up. And with more force, it hardens itself up. Thus creating the fold mountains.
3. Volcanic Mountain:
Although a few factors might be the same. The formation process is quite different here from the other two. Everybody knows of volcanoes and their effects. So when a volcano occurs, the hot molten lava comes out from the core of the earth and settles itself on the earth’s surface. This continuous piling of molten lava creates a pile that is much higher in height than the land beside. Thus, the pile stiffens up with time, and when it has risen to a much higher altitude, we call it a volcanic mountains.
Thus, through all these, we can say that tectonic plates and their movements are essentially the factors that result in the formation of mountains.
– Written By GODHULI MONDAL
Mountains are formed by earthly movements, which are slow and huge, they are always moving it is formed from the pushing and pulling affect of the continents, they when pushed towards each other form a mountain and the earth crust made up of layers callef plates fits together like a puzzle and the slabs smash into one another pushing them upwards with the large scale movements of the earth, pushed beneath one another, they get into a collision and get banged on and formed a mountain they are layers of rock pusjed towards each other moving upward in to the process. They are of different kinds and types; they are the result of plate convergence and describe the tectonic plate movements resulting in the collision of two plates.
– Written By Sudesna Maji
