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Leo Bergnaum
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What type of plate movement causes fault-block mountains to form?
Lateral movements of diverging plates.
How are fault lines important to fault block mountains?
Fault-block mountains form because of fault-lines. One side of a fault pushes over the other, causing blocks of rock to rise from the surface.
Which mountains form at large-scale normal faults where the footwall and hanging wall spread apart from each other?
Fault-block mountains
True or false mountains may form when parts of the crust rises along a fault?
Possibly true.
When shearing causes areas between plates that are sliding past one another to form what?
fault mountains
What mountains form from vertical fault movement?
fault block
What kind of mountains form from vertical fault movement?
Block mountains form when a fault line causes rocks to move past each other. These are also called fault mountains.
Where Are Fault Block Mountains in California?
A fault-block mountain can be found in Death Valley, California and also in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Movement of large crustal blocks form fault-block mountains.
Where are fault-block mountains in California?
A fault-block mountain can be found in Death Valley, California and also in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Movement of large crustal blocks form fault-block mountains.
What type of plate movement causes fault-block mountains to form?
Lateral movements of diverging plates.
Where do most of the world's mountains form?
Mountains form along fault lines.
What happens to the lithosphere as fault-block mountains form?
During the formation of fault-block mountains, the lithosphere stretches.
What mountains to form?
Movement of the plates.
What is the difference between fault-block and upwarped mountains?
Uplifted is a term that is applied to a mass of rock that is pushed up by geologic forces. Uplifting can occur in a few different ways and can be accompanied by faulting. A fault block is a mass of rock that is separated from the surrounding rock by faults. Depending on the setting a fault block may be uplifted (move up), be downthrust (move down), or may move sideways with out vertical movement.
How are fault lines important to fault block mountains?
Fault-block mountains form because of fault-lines. One side of a fault pushes over the other, causing blocks of rock to rise from the surface.
What are two types of mountains that can form far from plate boundaries?
fault-block mountains and uplifted mountains
How do folded volcanic and fault block mountains differ?
Volcanic mountains can erupt, folded mountains form when rock layers are squeezed together and pushed upward, fault block mountains form when tension makes the lithosphere break into many normal faults
