Thanks ST for your comments.


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**To Us ... Whether Recognized ... Believed Or Not !! ... Is That All Mountains .... Are In Effect Of Volcanoes/Volcanic Origins ...

+ But of course NOT... unless you get back enough in time and you claim everything is "volcanic",

**We Can Claim This ... As We Have Witnessed ... The Formation ... Of Your Planet ... In/Of Various Times/Stages ... Of Changes & Upheavals !! ... So
It Is Not An Untruth ... To Say ... That Everything Is "Volcanic" ... As It Does Have Directly Or Indirectly ... Of Volcanic Origins !!

which would be extremely unexplicative!

**No .... It Would State ... Of How Things Happened ... Of How They Formed !! ... As We Can & Have Witnessed This ... Of Our Ability To Journey ... To Record ... Of Living History !!

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++Here you missed my point to some degree... everything is "volcanic" if you go far enough toward its origins, at least it seems so when refering to large (500km and more) objects on the Solar system (all?)... and if you define "volcanic" as molten materials which project through a thickening crust. A crust is formed through the release of energy (and some mass) out of the object´s attractions. However, this is a rather unexplicative concept of volcanism, and differs from what (human) geologists understand for such a process...

why?

Because volcanism is undestood as an extrusion of material (often but not always molten) coming out from the inner/more energetic regions of a large object (+500 km) and just that... while the original solidification of the surface is not to be considered "volcanism" within this conception, and more over... transformed (originally volcanic or not volcanic) rocks through erosion and deposition (sedimentary), and through high compression and transformation, with later exposition to the surface (methamorphic) are not understood as volcanism.

Calling everything volcanic will lead to a high level of swampyness, as it explains actual processes, quite old ones.

++ So, it just depend on the concepts you are making your understandings and the degree of detail you are seeking.

++ Everything is not volcanic, for what we name volcanism, and at the same time... going back to its origins... many things were once molted... they once might be gas, plasma, energy... but that explains very little in relation to current Earth´s volcanotectonism. So, we clasify rocks.

++ And the volcanic structures and processes we know more about... occurs in finite, relatively efimeral moutains we call volcanoes (probably efimeral just in their upper appearance, but quite old in their underground structure). Still, this might not be the most relevant process when the crust is thick enough and the mass is large enough. Is it?

S. who C.