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The movement within the Earth that causes buried rock to be exposed at the Earth's surface is called uplift. It refers to the vertical elevation of the Earth's surface.
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Plateaus and most mountains are created by uplift.
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Convection (rising air), orographic uplift/forced convection (air up a mountain), frontal uplift (front), and convergence uplift (air masses converge)
Earthquakes or erosion
The earth's crust moves and the crust moves up When you have something like the rifting of a continent, the lithosphere heats up and causes it to rise. sinking of craton edges can be caused by things like tectonic loading.
Both sea level drop and tectonic uplift
The movement within the Earth that causes buried rock to be exposed at the Earth's surface is called uplift. It refers to the vertical elevation of the Earth's surface.
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Uplift caused by tectonic movement
Uplift is the process by which regions of the earth's crust are raised to higher elevations.
Uplift can be used as a verb or it can be a noun (uplifted area, or amount of uplift).
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The Uplift War was created in 1987.