What event can create new mountains?

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1 Answer
Mar 12, 2018

The collision of two destructive plate boundaries

Explanation:

The Himalayas contain a range of these mountains. They lie on a collision zone (a type of destructive plate margin or boundary). Two continental plates push into each other. Because they are the same density, neither sinks, so they are pushed upwards, forming fold mountains.