List of mountain types

Mountains and hills can be characterized in several ways. Some mountains are volcanoes and can be characterized by the type of lava and eruptive history. Other mountains are shaped by glacial processes and can be characterized by their shape. Finally, many mountains can be characterized by the type of rock that make up their composition.

Contents

Types of glacially eroded mountains

• Pyramidal peak
• Arête
• Nunatak

Types of volcanoes/volcanic landforms

• Caldera
• Cinder cone
• Complex volcano
• Cryovolcano
• Fissure vent
• Guyot
• Lava cone
• Lava dome
• Monogenetic volcanic field
• Mud volcano
• Pancake dome
• Polygenetic volcanic field
• Pyroclastic cone
• Pyroclastic shield
• Shield volcano
• Stratovolcano
• Subaqueous volcano
• Subglacial mound
• Subglacial volcano
• Submarine volcano
• Supervolcano
• Somma volcano
• Tuya
• Volcanic crater
• Volcanic field
• Volcanic plug

Types of rock

• Igneous
  • Extrusive (see types of volcanoes, above)
  • Intrusive
• Metamorphic
• Sedimentary

Other types of mountain or hill

• Conical hill
• Fell
• Fold and thrust belt
• Fault-block mountain
• Dome
• Inselberg
• Kuppe
• Mound
• Mount
• Mountain ranges

See also

• List of rock types
• Batholith
• Intrusive rock
• Laccolith