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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.
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∙ 9y agoUplift refers to tectonic uplift where the portion of the geological uplift of the Earth's surface is not attributable to the process of unloading, which causes the earth's surface to wear down.
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What type of stress causes uplift?
compression
What are the causes of uplift in the atmosphere?
Convection (rising air), orographic uplift/forced convection (air up a mountain), frontal uplift (front), and convergence uplift (air masses converge)
What causes rock layers to uplift?
Rock layers can be uplifted by tectonic forces, such as the movement of tectonic plates converging, diverging, or sliding past each other. This can create pressure, folding, and faulting in the crust, causing rocks to uplift. Erosion can also remove overlying material, exposing deeper rock layers and causing uplift.
What causes a rejuvenated stream?
Both sea level drop and tectonic uplift
What is a movement within the earth that causes buried rock to be exposed at the earth's surface called?
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.
What is the position of rock layers?
uplift
What causes all types of rocks to be exposed to weathering and erosion?
Uplift caused by tectonic movement
Which regions of crust are raised to a higher elevation?
Uplift is the process by which regions of the earth's crust are raised to higher elevations.
What is the part of speech of uplift?
Uplift can be used as a verb or it can be a noun (uplifted area, or amount of uplift).
Rising of regions of earths crust?
uplift
When was The Uplift War created?
The Uplift War was created in 1987.
What does mountain uplift mean?
Uplift is the process in which structural highs are created (e.g. mountains). Tectonism is largely responsible for uplift.
