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The San Andreas fault is an example of a strike-slip fault. It is located at a transform boundary, and was created when the Pacific plate and North American plate ground past one another horizontally.
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Explain how tectonic forces created the San Andreas fault zone What type of fault is typical of this fault zone?
The San Andreas fault zone is located at a transform boundary, where two plates are grinding past one another horizontally. As the rocks grind past one another, shear stress causes rock to break into a series of blocks. The blocks form a series of strike-slip faults—the typical fault type along the San Andreas fault.
How might a landform created by tectonic forces look different from a land form created by a glacier?
Tectonic forces push land masses together, creating mountains.Glaciers scrape away and carve away land masses, creating valleys.
What forces move the continents?
Tectonic forces.
What does geological forces mean?
tectonic forces, etc
Are both weathering and erosion a form of tectonic forces?
No. Tectonic forces are from within the earth. Weathering and erosion come from the atmosphere.
Who built Denali?
Tectonic forces in the earth
What produces the forces that form volcanoes and cause earthquakes?
Tectonic plate motion.
How do forces inside the earth create ang change landforms?
Mountains are created by tectonic plates colliding together and pushing the edges up into the air.
When is a subduction zone is created?
a subduction zone is created when to tectonic plates push towards each other then one forces it self under the other plate. This usually creates a trench or deep canyon. Subduction is caused by an earthquake moving the two tectonic plates towards eachother.
What forces inside the earth create and change landforms?
seismic waves created by the constantly moving tectonic plates create and change the landforms. For more info google Tectonic Plates, and that will tell you everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What happens when tectonic forces uplift?
Structural highs (e.g. mountains) are created by uplift. The uplifted rocks are commonly heavily folded and faulted as a result of uplift.
Sometimes layers of rock are overturned by forces generated by?
tectonic activity
