Those working above ground on mountains might be geographers, anthropologists, meteorologists, riparian economists, mountain ecologists, and so it goes. David, here again you are mistaken. Even those who study sediments in the Amazonian flood plain are really looking at something mountainy. It is not only the fact that vulcanologist are doing mountain work but also that geographers or anthropologists of montane societies are doing montology if they do not treat their research subjects as isolated entities, as items embedded in a belt, as independent units occupying marginal lands. This is precisely the paradigm that we try to overcome with this new approach.
Categorization is the process of arriving at consecutive lower hierarchical organizational levels.
In landscape ecology, we consider the process as a Janus-faced trade off, which allows to comprehend what is before and beyond the level of study. Even in nested hierarchical systems, categorization and typology are two important epistemological treats. I lost Vonnegut's definition of Hoosier, but I am sure you also agree with the fact that native Indianans are not awkward or inexperienced as the traditional terms connotes. Montology is not a crazy name created out of the blue, but a logical terminology that can be readily translated to other languages. New words have appeared just for their mere convenience.