Fold mountains
Mountains formed by compressive crumpling of the layers of rock / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fold mountains are formed by the effects of folding on layers within the upper part of the Earth's crust. Before the development of the theory of plate tectonics and before the internal architecture of thrust belts became well understood, the term was used to describe most mountain belts but has otherwise fallen out of use.