A mountain range is a chain of mountains bordered by lowlands or separated from other mountains by passes or rivers. A mountain is a Landform that extends above the surrounding Terrain in a limited area with a peak In a range of hills or especially of mountains, a pass (also gap, notch, col, saddle, bwlch, Individual mountains within the same mountain range do not necessarily have the same geology, though they often do; they may be a mix of different orogeny, for example volcanoes, uplifted mountains or fold mountains and may, therefore, be of different rock. Orogeny (Greek for "mountain generating" is the process of natural Mountain building and may be studied as a tectonic structural event as a geographical event and Plate tectonics and hotspots Divergent plate boundaries At the See also Folding The term fold is used in Geology when one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces such as Sedimentary The Andes is the world's longest mountain range. The Andes form the world's longest exposed Mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. The Himalaya contains the world's highest mountains. The Arctic Cordillera is the world's northernmost mountain system and contains the highest point in eastern North America. The Arctic Cordillera, sometimes called the Arctic Rockies, are a vast deeply dissected mountain system running along the northeastern shore of North America
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Sub-ranges
It should be noted that the mountain systems of the earth are characterized by a tree structure, that is, many mountain ranges are defined as having sub-ranges within them. A tree structure is a way of representing the hierarchical nature of a Structure in a graphical form It can be thought of as a parent-child relationship. For example, the Appalachian Mountains are the parent range of other ranges comprising it, some of which include the White Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Appalachian Mountains ( often called the Appalachians, are a vast system of mountains in eastern North America. The White Mountains are a Mountain range that covers about a quarter of the state of New Hampshire and a small portion of western Maine in the The Blue Ridge, or Blue Ridge Mountains, is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division The White Mountains are a child of the Appalachians, and there are also children of the Whites, including the Sandwich Range and the Presidential Range. The Sandwich Range is located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States, north of the Lakes Region and south of the Presidential The Presidential Range is a Mountain range located in the White Mountains of the state of New Hampshire, almost entirely in Coos County Further, the Presidential Range can be broken up into the Northern Presidential Range and Southern Presidential Range. For more information, see List of mountain ranges and Peakbagger Ranges Home Page. This is a list of Mountain ranges organized alphabetically by continent
Climate
The position of mountains influences climate, such as rainfall. When wind moves over the sea, the warm moist air rises and cools to form orographic rainfall, while cool dry air moves over the ridge to the leeward side.
Their location also affects temperature. If the sun is shining from the east, then the eastern side of the mountain will receive sunlight and warmth, while the other side will be shaded and cooled, so certain ecosystems maintain different biological clocks depending on the location of a mountain.
Erosion
Uplifted regions or volcanic caps can undergo erosion, which makes them move resulting in a range of mountains. An example is the English Lake District. The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a rural area in North West England. Mountain streams carry eroded debris downhill and deposit it in alluvial plains or in deltas. An alluvial plain is a relatively flat Landform created by the deposition of sediment over a long period of time by one or more Rivers coming from highland regions A delta is a Landform where the mouth of a River flows into an Ocean, Sea, Estuary, Lake or another river This forms the classical geological chain of events, leading to one type of sedimentary rock formation: erosion, transportation, deposition and compaction. Sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock types (the others being igneous and Metamorphic rock) Erosion is the carrying away or displacement of solids ( Sediment, Soil, rock and other particles usually by the agents of currents such as wind In geology transportation refers to the movement of eroded debris whether by Rivers Glaciers Wind or Ocean currents and Deposition is the geological process by which material is added to a Landform or land mass Compaction (geology refers to the process by which a Sediment progressively loses its Porosity due to the effects of loading
Tectonic plate movement
See: Plate tectonics. Plate tectonics (from Greek τέκτων tektōn "builder" or "mason" describes the large scale motions of Earth 's Lithosphere
See also
This is a list of Mountain ranges organized alphabetically by continent Eight-thousanders The 14 " Eight-thousanders quot 8000 meters or higher above Sea level, all in the Himalayas: Everest (8848 There are unique characteristics to the Appalachian National Scenic Trail by state, generally known as the AppalachianDictionary
mountain range
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- A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.
- A series of lines of mountains.
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