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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 andmetamorphism 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.
Types of mountains
There are three main types of mountains: volcanic, fold, and block. A more detailed classification useful on a local scale predates plate tectonics and adds to the above categories.
Volcanic mountains
Movements of tectonic plates create volcanoes along the plate boundaries, which erupt and form mountains. A volcanic arc system is a series of volcanoes that form near a subduction zone where the crust of a sinking oceanic plate melts.
Most volcanoes occur in a band encircling the Pacific Ocean and in another that extends from the Mediterranean across Asia to join the Pacific band in the Indonesian Archipelago. The most important types of volcanic mountain are composite cones or stratovolcanoes and shield volcanoes.
Fold mountains
When plates collide or undergo subduction the plates tend to buckle and fold, forming mountains. Most of the major continental mountain ranges are associated with thrusting and folding or orogenesis. Examples are the Jura and the Zagros mountains.
Block mountains
When a fault block is raised or tilted, block mountains can result. Higher blocks are called horsts and troughs are called grabens. A spreading apart of the surface causes tensional forces. When the tensional forces are strong enough to cause a plate to split apart, it does so such that a center block drops down relative to its flanking blocks.
The indoor part:
1) The name of this cache.
2) The names of other cachers you send the answers for. (If you do.)
The outdoor part:
At gz:
3) What type of mountain can you see right in front of you?
4) Why do you think so?
Look from gz to the left on the rock face:
5) What colours can you see?
6) How thick are the different layers and how do they differ?
Please send the answers via email or preferred message center in English or German. Please send them before or shortly after you log your find and do not post them in your log. If there are any problems, feel free to contact me.