When the huge plates that cover the Earth move, they create enormous tension that cracks rocks, forming long faults. Blocks of land pushed up between roughly parallel sets of faults form block mountains. Examples include the Ruwenzori Mountain range in Central Africa and the Sierra Nevada in the south-western USA.
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