<p style=”margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span lang=”EN-US”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria",serif”><span style=”color:black”>Fold mountains are created where two or more of Earth’s tectonic plates are pushed together. At these colliding, compressing boundaries, rocks and debris are warped and folded into rocky outcrops, hills, mountains, and entire </span></span></span></span></span><span lang=”EN-US”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria",serif”>mountain</span></span></span><span lang=”EN-US”><span style=”background:white”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria",serif”><span style=”color:black”> ranges.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li style=”margin-bottom:5px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:normal”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span lang=”EN-US”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria",serif”><span style=”color:#231f20″>Where an area of sea separates two plates, sediments settle on the sea floor in depressions called geosynclines. These sediments gradually become compressed into sedimentary rock.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-bottom:5px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:normal”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span lang=”EN-US”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria",serif”><span style=”color:#231f20″>When the two plates move towards each other again, the layers of sedimentary rock on the sea floor become crumpled and folded.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-bottom:5px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:normal”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span lang=”EN-US”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria",serif”><span style=”color:#231f20″>Eventually the sedimentary rock appears above sea level as a range of fold mountains.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-bottom:5px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:normal”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span lang=”EN-US”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria",serif”><span style=”color:#231f20″>Where the rocks are folded upwards, they are called <b>anticlines</b>. Where the rocks are folded downwards, they are called <b>synclines</b>. Severely folded and faulted rocks are called <b>nappes</b>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style=”margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span lang=”EN-US”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria",serif”><span style=”color:#333333″>The Himalayas in Asia, the Andes Mountains in South America and the Alps Mountains in Europe are some examples of fold mountains. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>