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What is faulting folding and tilting?

its the differences between tilting an folding


Faulting is to gently contoured mountains as folding is to what?

Folding and faulting in mountains occurs because of the movement of lithospheric plates as described in the theory of plate tectonics. Continent to continent collision compresses the crust and its sedimentary cover rocks, displacing and distorting them upwards (folding) and fracturing them (faulting). Folding and faulting can also occur in oceanic crust-continental crust collisions, in areas above subduction zones.


Faulting and folding are both types of?

deformation


Folding and faulting are caused by?

Mountains


What is the movements in the crust that cause the faulting or folding of rock?

Tectonics.


What do the forces of faulting folding and volcanic action create?

mountains


What is deformational metamorphism?

changes in rocks associated with faulting and folding


What combinations should favor folding rather than faulting?

High temperature and high confining pressure


Movements in the crust that cause the faulting or folding or rocks is called?

Diastrophism.


How can folding and faulting form mountains?

Folding and Faulting usually work together to form mountains. Faulting works by one plate shifting up and one plate submerging. Folding however works by both plates pushing against each other slowly folding over and over. Faulting and Folding and work together to make mountains by as one plate moves down the other up causes the plate going up to roll over or move on top of the other plate then as the bottom plate gets heat from the earths core it rises folding the plate on top again to bring it even higher. Hoped it helped you


How were the Appalacians formed?

Continental collision with resulting upwards folding, faulting etc.


What is diatrophism?

It is the deformation of the Earth's crust by such geologic processes as volcanism, faulting, and folding.