Volcanic mountain ranges are formed when a magma melt rises from the mantle and punches through the surface. After thousands of flows and eruptions, you end up with a volcanic mountain. There are a number of types of volcano and types of eruption, bu the point is, you get a volcanic mountain no matter what. The Cascades are an example. Non-volcanic mountains are formed when compressional forces between tectonic plates folds the crust and/or thrust faults it into a range such as the Rockies.
After that, everything erodes the same way. It's either blow away or washed away. *Erosion* is simply the transport of material.
Weathering is how the rock breaks up.
Physical/mechanical weathering by breaking up the rock through wind or water abrasion or freeze-thaw pulsing. Glaciers are also a significant source of physical weather, a massive scouring of rock like enormous sandpaper. Chemical weathering as dilute acids dissolve minerals.
Once all of this stuff is broken up, it is then eroded and deposited somewhere else.
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mountains are also formed when continents collide or islands slam into continents mountains are pushed up such as the himalayas.
Volcanic mountain ranges are formed when a magma melt rises from the mantle and punches through the surface. After thousands of flows and eruptions, you end up with a volcanic mountain. There are a number of types of volcano and types of eruption, bu the point is, you get a volcanic mountain no matter what. The Cascades are an example. Non-volcanic mountains are formed when compressional forces between tectonic plates folds the crust and/or thrust faults it into a range such as the Rockies.
After that, everything erodes the same way. It's either blow away or washed away. *Erosion* is simply the transport of material.
Weathering is how the rock breaks up.
Physical/mechanical weathering by breaking up the rock through wind or water abrasion or freeze-thaw pulsing. Glaciers are also a significant source of physical weather, a massive scouring of rock like enormous sandpaper. Chemical weathering as dilute acids dissolve minerals.
Once all of this stuff is broken up, it is then eroded and deposited somewhere else.