What are Fold Mountains?
Fold mountains are formed when two or more of the Earth's tectonic plates are pushed together, this is a collision and compression of boundaries, rocks and debris are packed and folded into rocky outcrops and hills of mountains and entire mountain ranges. Folded mountains are formed by a process called orogenesis, which is an orogenic event that takes millions of years to form a folded mountain that is a mantle. Blankets and dramatically folded rocks or rock formations are common. "Nappe" is French for "table cloth" and is believed to be the formation named after the experiment on the table. Folded mountain ranges are often associated with continental crust. They were formed at the boundaries of convergent plates, sometimes called continental collision zones, in other words compression zones. Convergent plate boundaries are collision points where tectonic plates collide. Compression is described as a set of stresses at one point in a rock formation. In the co