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Fault block mountains are often created through rifting, which is an indication of tensional tectonic forces. Fault block mountains are primarily the result of faulting and folding.

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Fault block mountains are often created through rifting, which is an indication of tensional tectonic forces. Fault block mountains are primarily the result of faulting and folding.

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UPLIFTING
folding

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The hanging wall block slips downward along the thrust fault

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A term for a curved fault bounding a block that is hinged along one edge; in the Little Rocky Mountains of Montana

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Rock that is too brittle to fold under heat and pressure, will break, called

thrust faulting. When older rock ends up on top of younger rock as a result of thrust faulting, the result is the formation of fault block mountains.

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