Fault-block mountains or block mountains are mountains
that form when faults or cracks form in the earth's crust. These faults cause one
section of earth to rise and others to be depressed causing block mountains. Block
mountains are found in India, as well as other parts of the world including North
America (Sierra Nevada Mountains) and Europe (Harz Mountains).
In India specifically the mountain
ranges Satpura
and Vindhya
found in the central- western part of the Indian sub continent are block
mountains, having formed through cracks in the earth’s crust, these ranges rose while
the block of earth known as the Rift Valley
depressed.
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