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Topic: Mountains & mountain building/ structural geology Mountain Type of mounta

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Topic: Mountains & mountain building/ structural geology

Mountain

Type of mountain                              

Plate boundary association / Type of mountain building associated with the mountain(s)

Avacha                            

Ruby mountains

Grand Tetons

El capitan

Fernandina

Flat irons

Franklin Mountains, TX

Hopi butte

Iliamna

Mauna Loa, Hawaii

Torres del Paine

Zagros mountains

Cascades Mountains

Appalachian Mountains, PA

Sideling Hill, MD

Mountain

Type of mountain                              

Plate boundary association / Type of mountain building associated with the mountain(s)

Avacha                            

Ruby mountains

Grand Tetons

El capitan

Fernandina

Flat irons

Franklin Mountains, TX

Hopi butte

Iliamna

Mauna Loa, Hawaii

Torres del Paine

Zagros mountains

Cascades Mountains

Appalachian Mountains, PA

Sideling Hill, MD

Explanation / Answer

Mountain

Type of mountain                              

Plate boundary association / Type of mountain building associated with the mountain(s)

Avacha                            

Ruby mountains

Grand Tetons

El capitan

Fernandina

Flat ironsplateau mountains

Franklin Mountains, TX

Hopi butte

Iliamna

Mauna Loa, Hawaii

Torres del Paine

Zagros mountains

Cascades Mountains

Appalachian Mountains, PA

Sideling Hill ------ synclinal folded mountains------ convergent plate boundary.

Mountain

Type of mountain                              

Plate boundary association / Type of mountain building associated with the mountain(s)

Avacha                            

its a volcanic mountain , and active volcano, situated on the kamchatka peninsula in the russia its situated on the convergent / destructive plate boundary. here pacific plate suducting into eurasian plate at the rate of 80 mm/year

Ruby mountains

dome mountains convergent plate boundary

Grand Tetons

folded mountain convergent plate boundary

El capitan

dome mountains convergent plate boundary

Fernandina

volcanic mountains formed by the upwelling of magmas (hotspot)

Flat ironsplateau mountains

plateau mountains formed by erosion

Franklin Mountains, TX

fault block mountains divergent plate boundary

Hopi butte

volcanic mountains divergent plate boundary

Iliamna

volcanic mountain convergent plate boundary, pacific plate suducting into north american plate

Mauna Loa, Hawaii

volcanic mountains its situated on the convergent / destructive plate boundary. here pacific plate suducting into hawaii hotspot.

Torres del Paine

plateau mountains formed by the erosion

Zagros mountains

folded mountain formed by the collission of eurasian plate and arabian plate

Cascades Mountains

volcanic mountains formed by the subducting of the juan de fuca plate under north american plate

Appalachian Mountains, PA

folded mountain mountain building, formed by the collision of plates