do you believe mountinas become smaller over years?

Question

or larger. any web info on this theory

Answer 1

yes mountains do get smaller over time. this is because of erosion due to the movement of tectonic plates, rain, wind, water and just plain wear. however volcanic mountains get biger because the constantly pouring out lava cooling and becoming rock adds mass

Answer 2

Yes the can, both. Its called erosion. Not all mountains are growing, some are being eroded away slowly over time. Glaciers are a prime example of erosion of mountains.

Mountan building is known a orogenisis

Answer 3

http://www.kbears.com/climates/printmountain.html

Depending on what kind on fault you are on they can either become smaller or bigger.

the type of fault can make all the difference:
if the mountain is on a conversion fault such as the Himalayas they get bigger.

if they are on a diversion fault (move away from eachother) then they get smaller and also by erosion.

when I took earth science how I rememberd the faults I use to think diversion fault as diving away from.
Conversion as going against
and transfer is just moving along side eachother.

Answer 4

its everywhere on the internet! some get bigger due to tectonic forces within the earth, other get smaller due to aeolian erosion, glaiciation and fluvial erosion. others stay about the same becuase these things are balanced out.

Answer 5

it depends; they could get smaller because of erosion from wind water and chemicals or they could get bigger if it is being built up due to plate tectonics (orogeny-mountain building time)

Answer 6

do to wind and rain erosion this is called weather erosion and when this erosion happens it wears away at the rocks and the mountain it self

Answer 7

maybe yes, because the tectonic plates could move outwards and make a mountain smaller
and mostly no, the tectonic plates, to me, will still collide to form a bigger mountain