0
What is the fold and what's the oldest rock where is are in the center of the fold?
Wiki User
∙ 8y agoWant this question answered?
Be notified when an answer is posted
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What is a fold in which the youngest rock layers are in the center of the fold called?
Synclines
What is the name of a fold in which the youngest rock layers are in center?
Such a fold is called a syncline.
Is Mt K2 a syncline or antisyncline?
A syncline is a downward curving fold in a rock formation, where the strata dip toward the center of the structure. An anticline is an upwardly curving fold, with the strata rise upward toward the center of the structure.
What part of the sedimentary of rock is the oldest?
Protolith is a term used to describe the parent rock of a metamorphic rock. Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock that can be composed of clasts of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic rocks, or any number of combinations of all.
What common structure is found in a metamorphic rock?
fold
A fold in which the oldest rock layers are in the center of the fold is?
If rocks are folded, the folding is younger that the youngest rock affected. If they are folded into a syncline (a U-shaped fold) the youngest rocks are in the core of he fold. The opposite is true for an anticline (a big dome-shaped fold).
What kind of stress causes a anticline?
anticlines are caused by extensional stress on the rocks, and syncline is caused by compressional stress. The stress is always pushing from the oldest layer of rock toward the youngest layer of rock, so in an anticline, where the oldest rocks are in the center of the rock fold, they push outward toward the younger rocks. In a syncline the youngest rocks are in the center of the fold and the oldest rocks are on the outer edge, the older rocks push inward toward the youngest rock.
What fold is the fold in which the youngest rock layers are in the center?
Such a fold is called a syncline.
What is a fold in which the youngest rock layers are in the center of the fold called?
Synclines
What is the name of a fold in which the youngest rock layers are in center?
Such a fold is called a syncline.
What is an anti-syncline?
A syncline is a downward curving fold in a rock formation, where the strata dip toward the center of the structure. An anticline is an upwardly curving fold, with the strata rise upward toward the center of the structure.
Is Mt K2 a syncline or antisyncline?
A syncline is a downward curving fold in a rock formation, where the strata dip toward the center of the structure. An anticline is an upwardly curving fold, with the strata rise upward toward the center of the structure.
What is an upward fold in a rock is called?
== == An upward fold in a rock formation is called an anticline.
What part of the sedimentary of rock is the oldest?
Protolith is a term used to describe the parent rock of a metamorphic rock. Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock that can be composed of clasts of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic rocks, or any number of combinations of all.
What is it called when rock layers bend and buckle?
Fold
What does compression do to rock layers?
fold mountains form
What is an upward fold called?
An anticline is a convex fold in a rock structure.
