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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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Cliffs formed as a result of faulting are called?
A line of cliffs formed by displacement along a fault is known as a fault scarp.
What forms from a transverse plate boundary?
A transverse range forms as a result of compression and thrust faulting. The faulting occurs where San Andreas Fault turns E-W.
What type of boundary causes faulting?
Transform boundaries cause fault lines or faults.
Faulting and folding are both types of what-?
Crustal deformation. That is, when pieces of the Earth's crust change shape due to tectonic forces.
What type of fault produces horst and graben topography?
Normal / extensional faulting creates horst and graben topography.
What are fault-block mountains primarily the result of - faulting and?
UPLIFTINGfolding
What are thrust fault mountains?
Rock that is too brittle to fold under heat and pressure, will break, calledthrust 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.
Cliffs formed as a result of faulting are called?
A line of cliffs formed by displacement along a fault is known as a fault scarp.
What is trapdoor faulting?
A term for a curved fault bounding a block that is hinged along one edge; in the Little Rocky Mountains of Montana
What forms from a transverse plate boundary?
A transverse range forms as a result of compression and thrust faulting. The faulting occurs where San Andreas Fault turns E-W.
How are strike-slip mountains formed?
Strike-slip mountains, also known as fault-block mountains, form from high to moderate angle faults on at least one side. Broad uplifting forms the mountains causing elongation and faulting.
What are two types of faults that can result in mountains?
normal and reverse fault can cause mountains
When plate movement causes rocks to break what is is called?
actually convection is wrong the correct answer would be called faulting
What types of faults would you expect to find in these mountains?
Reverse faulting is found in the Himalayas. With a reverse fault, the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
What kind of tectonic stress causes fault-block mountains?
faulting causes large blocks of the Earth's crust to drop down relative to other blocks
Why folding and faulting is one of the main causes behind earthquakes?
earthquakes often occur near fold mountains because fold mountains are formed on the earth's fault lines ( invisble lines in the earth's crust) and earthquakes happen when two fault lines crash together.
What are the two type of faults can result mountains and why?
normal and reverse fault
