What are the differences among fold mountains, block mountains, and dome mountains?
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the number and style of crevices in the mountain range
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Mountain\nA mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. A mountain is generally much higher and steeper than a hill, but there is considerable overlap, and usage often depends on local custom. Some authorities define a mountain as a peak with a topographic prominence over an arbitrary value: for example, the Encyclopedia Britannica requires a prominence of 2,000 feet (610 m).
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Plains\n\nThere are a lot of interesting landforms around the world. A landform is a feature that makes up the shape of the land at Earth’s surface. The three basic types of landforms: plains, plateaus, and mountains.\n\nCoastal Plains\n\nCoastal plains are broad areas along the ocean’s shore. They are often called lowlands because of their low elevations. Elevation refers to distance above or below sea level. As you might guess, sea level has zero elevation. The Atlantic Coastal Plain is a good example of this type of landform. It stretches along the East Coast of the United States. This area is characterized by low rolling hills, swamps, and marshes. A marsh is grassy wetland, usually flooded with water.\n\nInterior Plains\n\nA large portion of the center of the United States is called the interior plains. The interior plains of the United States extend from the Appalachian Mountains in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west, to the Gulf Coastal Plain in the south. They include the rolling hills of the Great Lakes area and the Central Lowlands around the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.\n\nPlateaus\n\nIf you would like to explore some higher regions, you might be interested in going to the second basic type of landform - a plateau. Plateaus are relatively flat, raised areas of land. They are areas made up of nearly horizontal rocks that have been uplifted by forces within Earth. Plateaus are different from plains in that they rise steeply from the land around them. A good example of a plateau in the United States is the Colorado Plateau, which lies just west of the Rocky Mountains. The Colorado River has cut deeply into the rock layers of the plateau, forming the Grand Canyon. Because the Colorado Plateau is located in a very dry region, only a few permanent rivers have developed on its surface. If you hiked around on this plateau, you would see a desert landscape.\n\nMountains\n\nPlains and plateaus are relatively flat. If you want to tackle a steep rock face, you must go the third basic type of landform - a mountain. Mountains rise high above the surrounding land, often providing a spectacular view from the top. The world’s highest mountain peak is Mount Everest, in the Himalayan Mountains. It is more than 8800 meters above sea level. By contrast, mountain peaks in the United States reach just over 6000 meters. Mountains vary greatly in size and in how they are formed. The four main types of mountains are folded, upwarped, fault-block, and volcanic.
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There is a list here, but it also has a description of the states:\n\nhttp://geology.about.com/od/stategeologicmaps/
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Mountains can affect the weather and climate of an area.  The mountians create updrafts, rainshadows, and other phenomena.\nMountains also affect the flow of people, ideas, and things impacting travel and transportation
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See the classic landforms and its characteristics in\nhttp://www.geomorph.org/gt/regional/nam.html
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This depends a bit on what we call a "mountain range". However;\nThe big ranges (Andes, Himalaya, Alps etc) are all very young, most uplift in the past 30 million years and much in the past 3-5my\nThe mountain belt including the Scandinavian peninsula, the Scottish Highlands, English Lake District and Wales were part of an "Andean" type range about 400my ago.  The Apalachians in the US are actually part of the same chain, "broken off" so to speak.\n\nSome parts of the Scottish Highlands, in the north west, were formed in the core of a much older range, up to 2,500my, but it is debatable whether you can call that a "mountain range".\n\nThe very ancient granites and gneisses (>4,000my) in Canada, Australia, Southern Africa and Greenland were likewise probably part of a mountain building episode, though the Plate Tectonics that formed later mountains probably hadn't kicked in then.  And these days, those areas are mostly rather level and eroded.  The South Africa/Swaziland border where some of these rocks are found is pretty rugged, but whether you could call it a "mountain range" is again debatable.\n\nPart of the problem is that there are ancient rocks within some very young mountain ranges - the rocks are old but the uplift forming the mountains is recent.\n\nIf we call a mountain range a "linear feature of land with steep and rugged terrain significantly higher than the land either side" , and an old range is one that has always been relatively high, not recently pushed up, then we need to find such a feature made of Pre-Cambrian rocks to meet the definition of "oldest mountain range".\n\nOff the top of my head, I'd plump for parts of the Appalachians.  The main range is "only" a few hundred milion years old, but the Pre-Cambrian blocks within were probably standing as elevated mountain blocks when the plate collision forming the range began.  So there has been an elevated upland in that area for perhaps a billion years.
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glassy - cools very fast; extrusive igneous rocks; no crystals; includes obsidian & pumice\nfine-grained - cools quickly but not as fast as above; crystals don't have time to grow large; crystals are generally all the same size\ncoarse-grained - larger size crystals; usually intrusive igneous rocks; crystals are usually uniform\nporphyritic - has two different & distinct crystal sizes that resembles a "chocolate chip cookie" as I tell my students; the larger grains are fewer than the smaller ones
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Granite, forms deep underground\nObsidian, the really dark and smooth black rock\nBasalt, which forms from volcanoes mostly\nPumice, the really light rock that floats on water\n\nand a few others, listed in the source site
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Stratigraphic columns give the geologic history of an area. Faults & folding give a tectonic history. By examining the types of rocks that have been deposited, intruded, folded, turned over, etc. geologists have a "relative" idea (pun intended) of the workings of the earth in the past.\n\nI spend about a week teaching my 9th grade earth science students about stratigraphy. They love figuring out strat cross-sections. For them it's like doing a puzzle.
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Scree is one word that describes a pile of loose rock, but it isn't specific to rock at the base of a mountain. \n\nA much better anwer would be "alluvial fan". This is the specific name given to rock that slides down off of mountains and forms wedge shaped piles at the base.
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Mountains don't have any geographic functions because they are usually something thats formed when plates collide during tectonic movement or oceanic lithosphere is subducted undearneath continental lithosphere and magma boils to the surface. If you want to learn more about mountains, take an Earth Science class, or looking up plate tectonics online.
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the difference is big.\nBasicaly an alpine glacier is a mountain glacier and it doesn't cover as much ground as the continental glacier.\nIt can be found in the high mountains where the temperatures are low enough for the ice to stay all over the year. Because of the temperature change their borders are not constant. Can be larger during the winter and smaller through the summer.\n\nThe continental glaciers are carachteristic for the poles. The cover enourmus surfaces like on Greenland, Arktic, Antharctik and lots of islands that suround them.
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granite....sand...\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/images/igneous.jpg&imgrefurl=http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/igneous.htm&h=423&w=640&sz=262&hl=en&start=17&tbnid=1_Wjmt6u5ghPyM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Digneous%2Brocks%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D\n\n\nthe most common....basalt...\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/essential/earthspace/images/show5-brit-with-igneous.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/essential/earthspace/session3/closer.html&h=300&w=300&sz=28&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=iEnzTA6MoGvW4M:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Digneous%2Brocks%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D\n\n\npumice...\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/features/rocks-minerals/pumice.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/features/rocks-minerals/rocks.html&h=667&w=800&sz=47&hl=en&start=6&tbnid=QxNtL7z7RM7VCM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpumice%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D\n\nobsidian...\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://faculty.icc.edu/easc111lab/labs/labb/rocks/ibox.jpg&imgrefurl=http://faculty.icc.edu/easc111lab/labs/labb/igneous.html&h=330&w=265&sz=59&hl=en&start=47&tbnid=6qFg9tv5UzEBnM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Digneous%2Brocks%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN
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Cliff or steep rock face, on the coast or inland
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Definitely continental to continental convergence. When continental crust meets continental crust neither will be subducted so they press together under extreme pressure over large amounts of time which leads to deformation of the crust (folding & faulting). This is one of several ways that mountains can be produced. AKA orogenesis.
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A mountain is an elevation in the earth's surface. The elevation, or altitude, of a mountain is given as the height of the summit above sea level. Mountains are much bigger than hills. Most of the time they are made up elongated ranges. It is rare when a mountain stands alone.\n\nWhat is the difference between tallest and highest? Tallest: the top is the furthest away from the base. Highest: the top is the furthest away from sea level. There are three ways of measuring the height of a mountain. So which mountain is the tallest? One way to measure a mountain is by measuring from sea level. The second way is by measuring from base to peak. The third way is by measuring the distance from the center of the earth to the peak of the mountain.\n\nMt. Everest, on the Nepal-Tibet border in the Himalayas, is the highest mountain on earth. It is about 8,850 meters above sea level. height was confirmed in December 1983 during a surveillance mission by the space shuttle Columbia. Mauna Kea, or "White Mountain"a volcano of the "Big Island" of Hawaii, is the tallest mountain on earth. It measure about 10,200 meters from base to summit. Chimborazo is a volcano in the Andes of Ecuador. It measures about 6,310 meters above sea level. When height is measured from the center of the earth, Chimborazo is tallest since it is located nearly on the equator, where the earth bulges the most.