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What kind of stress forms fault block mountains?
Fold-block mountains form when tension makes the lithosphere break into many normal faults.
What is the type of stress for a reverse fault?
In a reverse fault the maximum principal stress is horizontal, compression causes reverse (thrust) faults.
The San Andreas fault is an excellent example of what kind of fault?
The San Andreas Fault is an example of a transform boundary in which plates slide past each other. This type of fault may also be known as a strike slip fault. During this plate motion, lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed. Shear stress causes the undeformed block of rock to experience tearing and smearing.
What kind of mountains form from vertical fault movement?
Block mountains form when a fault line causes rocks to move past each other. These are also called fault mountains.
What kind of mountain range is formed when tension causes large blocks of crust to drop down?
It's a fault-block mountains :)
What kind of stress causes fault block mountains?
The kind of stress that causes fault block mountains is Tension
What kind of stress forms fault block mountains?
Fold-block mountains form when tension makes the lithosphere break into many normal faults.
What kind of stress is formed in a strike-slip fault?
Shear Stress
What kind of fault does it take to make a fault block mountain?
sliding
What kind of mountain is Tetons?
Fault-Block
What kind of tectonic stress causes fault-block mountains?
faulting causes large blocks of the Earth's crust to drop down relative to other blocks
What kind of stress does normal fault form?
Normal fault forms tension stress. It is a stress state wherein a body of material is being stretched or expanded.
What kind of mountain is mteverest?
a fault block mountain.
What kind of mountain is The Grand Tetons?
Fault-Block
What kind of mountain is Mount aconcagua?
fault block
What kind of mountains are the teton range?
fault-block
What kind of mountain is grand Tetons?
Fault-Block
