How Did the Green Mountains Form?

jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery('#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first').attr('href','http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/co/cc/how-did-green-mountains-form-1.1-800X800.jpg'); }); The Green Mountains are part of the New England portion of the Appalachian Mountains, an ancient landform that runs from the southern United States all the way to Canada along the eastern coast of the North American continent. The Green Mountains are the eastern range of mountains in Vermont, the other being the Taconic Mountains. The southernmost end of the Green Mountains, located in Massachusetts, is known as the Berkshire Mountains. Vermont was named for the mountains, literally "verts monts" in French, which was the language of the area's first explorers. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery('#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first').attr('href','http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/co/cc/how-did-green-mountains-form-2.1-800X800.jpg'); }); All mountains are formed by one or more of three processes: convergence, ...  more