This Mountain Is A Volcano. There are two categories of volcanic mountains. Volcanoes can be active dormant or extinct.
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Most mountains form as the result of plate tectonics although some were formed by magma welling up from the mantle. These volcanic areas usually form mountains built from the many layers of rock ash or other material that collect around them. A volcanic eruption is the process whereby very hot liquid rock is forced out suddenly and with a lot of pressure from the earth s crust.
The pamir mountain area centres on the nodal orogenic uplift known as the pamir knot from which several south central asian mountain ranges radiate including.
A volcano results from collection of lava after several volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes can be active dormant or extinct. Volcano mountain is the youngest volcano in the fort selkirk volcanic field and one of the youngest in the northern section of the northern cordilleran volcanic province the lava at volcano mountain is olivine nephelinite which is an uncommon type of lava this type of lava is believed to have come from much deeper inside the earth than basaltic lava. Mountains and volcanoes are somewhat similar but the major thing that makes them different is their formation.
