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Upwarped mountains are generally the result of broad arching of the crust or sometimes great vertical displacement along a highangle fault. The Black Hills in South Dakota and the Adirondack Mountains in New York are upwarped mountain ranges. Volcanic mountains are the accumulations of large amounts of volcanic lavas and pyroclastic material around the volcanic vent, such as seamounts and stratovolcanoes. The Hawaiian and Aleutian Islands are volcanic mountains. Fault-block mountains result from tensional stress.
An volcanic eruption is a place where hot melted rock called magma rises from deep inside the earth and erupts as lava out of the earth's crust. The world has three main types of volcanoes: Shield, Cinder, and Composite. The volcanoes in the Hawaiian Islands are Shield type volcanoes with long gentle slopes.fter many thousands of eruptions over a long period of time, the volcano mountains eventually grow to rise above the ocean to become islands. This is how the Hawaiian Islands were made. Here is a diagram of recent lava flows from the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island on February 4, 2011.