are the andes young fold mountains?
309122
Fold mountains are the most common type of mountain in the world. The rugged, soaring heights of the Himalayas, Andes, and Alps are all active fold mountains. The Himalayas stretch through the borders of China, Bhutan, Nepal, India, and Pakistan.
664098
The Inca Empire started high in the Andes Mountains of the western edge of South America. Their ancestors, at the birth of their people, were a...
950680
A subduction zone is formed. The sedimentary rock between the two plates is compressed, bended and folded up to form the fold mountain range called the Rockies. The subduction of the Nazca Plate causes earthquakes and leaves lines of weakness in the crust.
976621
Answer and Explanation: The Ural Mountains are considered a type of fold mountain. The Urals run roughly north to south and act as part of the conventional border between...
1363135
The Himalayas are known as the young fold mountains because they have been formed only few million years ago. They were formed because of the folding of the earth's crust due to tectonic activity (fold mountains are formed when two tectonic plates collide with one another).
92194
The crust that is now the Appalachians began folding over 300 million years ago, when the North American and African continental plates collided. Plate tectonics created this ancient mountain range, then called the Central Pangean Mountains . . . and plate tectonics tore it apart.
461099
Many scientists also believe that the Appalachian Mountains are the oldest mountains in the world. It is possible that the New River is older than any mountain range in the entire world. Finally, the New River's mountain contorting course has exposed rocks that are over 1 billion years old.
1005381
The south face of Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America, at 22,841 feet (6,962 meters) above sea level. Part of the Andes mountain range, Aconcagua is the second highest of the Seven Summits (the highest peaks on each continent), behind only Mount Everest in Asia.
231120
Young mountains, created several dozen million years ago, have steep slopes and high-pointed peaks. The youngest mountains, also the highest in the world, are within the Himalayas massif in Asia. Old mountains, in contrast, have rounded peaks and slopes made gentler by hundreds of millions of years of erosion.
936899
The You Yangs Ranges are not the remains of a volcano. More than 400 million years ago, the area now known as the Western Volcanic Plains was under the sea. ... The granite that forms the You Yangs Ranges was originally a mass of magma that had worked its way up into the surrounding sedimentary rocks.
215672
The Alps are fold mountains, the most common mountain type on Earth. Fold mountains sometimes are characterized by foreland basins, depressions that run parallel to the mountain range.
41619
These mountains form when faults or cracks in the earth's crust force some materials or blocks of rock up and others down. Instead of the earth folding over, the earth's crust fractures (pulls apart). It breaks up into blocks or chunks.
113753
The Andes Mountains line the western edge of South America, from Venezuela all the way along Chile to South America's southern tip, crossing through Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
201321
The Andean Volcanic Belt is a major volcanic belt along the Andean cordillera in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It is formed as a result of subduction of the Nazca Plate and Antarctic Plate underneath the South American Plate.
835155
The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. ... The highest mountain outside Asia, Argentina's Mount Aconcagua, rises to an elevation of about 6,961 m (22,838 ft) above sea level.
1026938
The Andes were formed by tectonic activity whereby earth is uplifted as one plate (oceanic crust) subducts under another plate (continental crust). To get such a high mountain chain in a subduction zone setting is unusual which adds to the importance of trying to figure out when and how it happened.
856389
The volcanoes of South America are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Most of them are along the backbone of the Andes. The Andes, together with the volcanoes, has been produced by the movement of the Americas towards the west.