Mountains
The balance of weights of rock, water, and ice with the upward force of the mantle.
What is isostasy.
The this settles it forms a flat or nearly flat layers.
What is sediment.
This is a depositional mountain landform built from solidified magma from deep in the earth.
What is a volcano.
The melted snow caused a volcanic mudslide
What is a lahar.
This volcano belt lies above the collision boundary of the African, Indo Australian, and southern Eurasian plates.
What is the Alpine-Himalayan
Tectonic processes that geologists believe resulted in the making of mountains fall
What is orogeny.
These mountains that form from folded rock strata are called?
What are fold mountains.
This refers to anything having to do with molten earth materials, including the rocks and minerals that come from them.
What is igneous.
What are vents in the ground where steam and other
gases from volcanic activity escape.
What are Fumaroles
This volcano belt surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Circum-Pacific
“a natural elevation of the earth’s surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit.”
What is a mountain.
is a trough or downward fold of rock strata formed just like an anticline.
What is a syncline.
As the lava breaks through the side of the main cone or beside it, the lava creates smaller cones called
What are parasitic vents.
When gas laden lava explodes in the volcano’s vent, the fine mist of solid lava falls as
What is ash.
Scientists think that there are about #### active and dormant volcanoes on land.
What is 1500.
the difference in height between the highest and lowest elevations of the terrain is known as
What is relief.
broad regions of relatively undisturbed sedimentary deposits lifted by some tectonic process.
What are plateaus
the form a huge craterlike depression called
What is a caldera.
This is a layer of loose pyroclastic materials and ash covering the ground.
What is Tephra.
Thick layers of igneous rocks cover many places in the world, including the ocean floor.
What are flood basalts
This is the largest mountain range on the earth.
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge.
These are mountains that were carved out by extensive erosion, usually from a plateau.
What are Erosional Mountains.
Sometimes a volcano erupts a mixture of hot solid particles suspended in water vapor or other gases. This hot mixture, is so dense that it flows down the volcano’s slope instead of rising into the air. At night, the entire flow glows a dull red.
What is pryoclastic flow.
When volcanoes erupt, they can also emit ash, cinders, bombs, and sometimes large chunks of rock.
What is called pyroclastic material.
Flood geologists agree that nearly all volcano landforms probably came into existence during
The Genesis Flood or shortly after.