Wednesday 26 October 2011

Geography Reflection- Fold Mountains

What are Fold Mountains?


Fold mountains are basically mountains that are folded, well it is created from two tectonics plate boundary colliding, which is called a Collisional Plate Boundary. This causes mountains to rise up, but the more it rises the more pressure is created due to the gravitational force and the Collisional Plate Boundary movements. This causes the mountains to sort of over lap and fold to create remarkable shapes. Some fold mountains are created through Destructive plate boundaries, these fold mountains you can find geosynclines, which are large depressions in the earth's surface containing sediments and volcanic rocks.


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