Block mountains

■ Block mountains, also known as fault block mountains, are the result of faulting caused by tensile and compressive forces motored by endogenetic forces coming from within the earth.

■ Block mountains represent the upstanding parts of the ground between two faults or on either side of a rift valley or a graben. 

■ Essentially, block mountains are formed due to faulting in the ground surface.

■ Block mountains are generally of two basic types 

1.Tilted block mountain’s having one steep side represented by fault scarp and one gentle side and

2.Lifted block mountains represent real horst and are characterized by flattened summit of tabular shape and very steep side slopes represented by two boundary fault scarps.