Draft:Outline of mountains

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to mountains:

What type of things are mountains?
Mountains can be described as all of the following:


 * Landform – natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Typical landforms include hills, mountains, plateaus, canyons, valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, mountains, and the great ocean basins.

Types of mountains
List of mountain types
 * Volcano

Types of groups of mountains

 * Cordillera
 * Inselberg field
 * Hügelland
 * Monogenetic volcanic field
 * Mountain range
 * Polygenetic volcanic field
 * Undulating hilly land

Features of mountains

 * Cliff
 * Mountain river
 * Mountain stream
 * Ultra-prominent peak

Specific mountains

 * Lists of mountains

History of mountains
History of mountains
 * Geological history of the Chiricahua Mountains
 * History of the Catskill Mountains

Mountain geology

 * Geology of the Alps
 * Geology of the Appalachians
 * Geology of the Ellsworth Mountains
 * Geology of the Himalayas
 * Geology of the Pyrenees
 * Geology of the Rocky Mountains
 * Geology of the Western Carpathians
 * Mountain formation

Ecology of mountains

 * Montane ecosystems
 * Alpine climate
 * Alpine plant
 * Alpine storms
 * Altiplano
 * Altitudinal zonation
 * Life zones of central Europe
 * Climate of Peru
 * Continental divide
 * Couloir
 * Fellfield
 * Fir wave
 * Firn
 * Freezing level
 * Glacial stream
 * Glacier
 * Hill people
 * International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
 * Krummholz
 * List of life zones by region
 * Life zones of Peru
 * Life zones of the Mediterranean region
 * Montane grasslands and shrublands
 * Mountain pass
 * Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
 * Ecology of the North Cascades
 * Páramo
 * Permafrost
 * Quechua (geography)
 * Retreat of glaciers since 1850
 * Ridge
 * Rupa-Rupa
 * Scree
 * Sky island
 * Snow line
 * Subglacial stream
 * Suni (geography)
 * Syngenetic permafrost growth
 * Tibetan Plateau
 * Tierra fría
 * Tierra helada
 * Tierra templada
 * Tree line
 * Yukon Ice Patches
 * Yungas

Mountain-related activities

 * Mountain biking
 * Mountaineering
 * Alpine climbing
 * Mountain rescue
 * Mountain warfare
 * Skiing