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Folding is caused by compressional stress.
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What type of stress in the crust results in the formation of folding mountains?
Plate collisions.
Folding is usually the result of what type of stress?
compressional forces
What is the dominant type of stress associated with folded mountains?
Answer: Compressional stress.
Name and describe the type of tectonic stress that forms fault - block mountains?
Tectonic stress forms faults and blocks mountains.
What stress causes rocks to pull apart?
The type of stress that causes rocks to pull apart is a tension stress. It is the major type of stress found in divergent plate boundaries.
What type of stress in the crust results in the formation of folding mountains?
Plate collisions.
What type of force causes folded mountains?
Compressional Stress
Folding is usually the result of what type of stress?
compressional forces
A divergent boundary causes what type of stress?
It causes tensional stress.
Which type of stress caused the himalaya mountains to form?
Compressional Stress
What is the dominant type of stress associated with folded mountains?
Answer: Compressional stress.
What is the Rocky Mountains stress type?
Tesion
Name and describe the type of tectonic stress that forms fault - block mountains?
Tectonic stress forms faults and blocks mountains.
What stress causes rocks to pull apart?
The type of stress that causes rocks to pull apart is a tension stress. It is the major type of stress found in divergent plate boundaries.
What type of boundary causes folding?
landform created bye the convergence of two continental plates
What causes rocks to pull apart?
The type of stress that causes rocks to pull apart is a tension stress. It is the major type of stress found in divergent plate boundaries.
What type of stress causes uplift?
compression
