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what is the differences between up-warded,fold and vocanic mountains

Answer 1

 mountain by definition possesses certain geological structural character.    A mountain might be the remnants of huge folds caused by tectonic process of compression like the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern US and their counterparts the Atlas mountains in N. Africa.  They might be huge continental blocks of material uplifted by faulting similar to the Grand Tetons, or the result of uplift of expansive plateaus of material like the Rocky Mountains.
 
Mountains are grouped in ranges, or belts, and are generally formed by tectonic plate compression resulting in collisional boundaries like the boundary of the India and China resulting in the Himalayas.   Subduction boundaries can result in belts of mountains like the Andes, where the deformation along the continental plate of S. America is uplifted by the subduction of the Pacific plate beneath the S. American plate.

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Difference between fold mountain and block mountain by points

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Fold Mountains:

Fold mountains are developed when deposited rock strata in geosynclines are subjected to compressive forces.

Fold mountains are the loftiest mountains . They are seen along continental margins.

Fold mountains come under the group of youngest mountains of the earth.

Fold mountains are of great lengths but their width is considerably small.

They  have a concave slope on one side and a convex slope on the other.

Recurrent seismic is a property of folded mountain belts

Volcanic activity is high in fold mountains

They are rich in tin, copper, gold

Block Mountains:

Block mountains are formed when large areas of earth or blocks of earth were broken and displaced vertically.

The uplifted blocks are called horsts and the lowered blocks are termed graben.

Examples: The valley floor the Great African Rift Valley is graben , the Vosges mountain and The Rhine Valley  in Europe.

Block mountains are also referred to as fault block mountains as they are formed because of faulting as a result of compression forcesand tensile.

They are surrounded by faults on either side of grabens.

There are two  types of block mountains. Tilted block mountains and Lifted block mountains 

Volcanic mountains are formed because of volcanic activity.

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