FAULT BLOCK MOUNTAIN
PAIGE P.
Block mountains and rift valleys are formed when plate movements pull and stretch rocks which are some distance from the plate edges . This cracks and produces faults. Some blocks on land sink down between faults they become block mountains. Examples include the Sierra Nevada in the USA.
My information was taken from here
http://www.bemidjistate.edu/Science/psns/ch22b/tsld006.htm
