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What is the difference between a fold mountain or a fold block mountain?

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A Fault-Block mountain is shaped like a block and a Folded Mountain is shaped like a folded piece of paper.

Also a difference is that a fault-block mountain is along a fault and a folded Mountain was formed due to its difficulty coming to the earths suface whcih caused to plates to fold

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