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mountain formation
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Mountain formation
Mountain formation
refers to the geological processes that underlie the formation of
mountains
. These processes are associated with large-scale movements of the earth's crust (
plate tectonics
). Mountain formation is related to
plate tectonics
.
Folding
,
faulting
,
volcanic activity
,
igneous intrusion
and
metamorphism
are all parts of the
orogenic process
of mountain building. The understanding of specific landscape features in terms of the underlying tectonic processes is called
tectonic geomorphology
, and the study of geologically young or ongoing processes is called
neotectonics
.
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