The mountains are divided into many small land blocks that are

separated by lowlands or deep saddles; there is no long or continuous

mountain range. These land blocks are the result of intense faulting
(movement of adjacent rock masses along a fracture) and warping
(bending of the Earth’s crust); the former process is regarded as
dominant. One consequence is that mountain blocks are often
bounded by fault scarps and flexure slopes that descend in step
formation to the adjacent lowlands.