What is the primary cause of crustal movement?

Answer 1

The influence of crustal movements on landforms, erosion and sediment deposition has been analysed in the severely eroded Irangi Hills in Kondoa District, central Tanzania. Field observations, in combination with satellite imagery, aerial photographs, and topographical and geological maps have been used. The Irangi Hills, which are uplifted relative to the vast Maasai Plain, consist of several tectonic blocks, with each block being tilted to the west. Frequent earthquakes indicate that relative uplift, faulting and tilting of the Irangi Hills are still taking place. The drainage pattern of the area and the deposition of river sediments are directly influenced by the morphotectonics. Where fault scarps occur, large rivers have cut into the bedrock across the fault scarps and follow antecedent stream courses, while small streams have been dammed, forming swamps or lakes. The denudation rate for a small catchment (33.4km2) has been calculated to 2.7mm a−1 for the years 1836-1992 by using a dated sediment record. This is considered to be an accelerated denudation rate. The soil erosion of the Irangi Hills is a long-term natural stripping of regolith, accelerated by anthropogenic causes, probably in combination with crustal uplift and the tilting of tectonic blocks.

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Answer 2

Crustal movements is the movements of plates that make up the Earth's Crust

Within the mantle of the Earth, There are powerful magma.

These currents are responsible for moving the crustal plates. This Crustal Movements

may only be a few centimeters a year but over millions of years, it has changed the position of the continents and has had a pronounced effect on shapes of the surface of our earth.

This movement causes earthquakes, forms volcanoes and mountains, and make the continents move.

Answer 3

The deformation occurs when force is applied in an object and the object changes its form.

Answer 4

The earths surface near a volcano or where there is plate tectonic movement becomes deformed. This crustal deformation happens before, during and after an event.

Answer 5

Convection currents in the mantle.