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When crustal rock is uplifted by the intrusion of an mass?
a dome mountain is formed
Crustal rock is uplifted by the intrusion of an igneous mass?
a dome mountain is formed
When crustal rock is uplifted by the intrusion of an igneous mass?
a dome mountain is formed
Does a dome Mountain from when hardened magma is uplifted and pushes up a horizontal layer of rock?
No.
What is the lanform that forms when a mass of hardened magma is uplifted causing the layers of rock to bend upward?
A Dome Mountain
How does a uplift to the Earth's surface make sedimentary rock?
The uplifted surface is then subjected to weathering and erosion, resulting in the deposition, compaction, and cementation of sediments which creates sedimentary rock.
What rock can be formed uplifted metamorphic rock?
Dick
In science terms what is folding?
Folding is when formerly flat sedimentary layers of rock are uplifted and literally tilted and folded in the mountain building process.
True or false a mountain formed by blocks of rock uplifted by normal faults are called dome mountains?
False. These are called Horst mountains.
When was sedimentary rock uplifted?
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Is it true that Mountains formed by blocks of rock uplifted by normal faults are called dome mountains?
No, only reverse faults can cause a mountain.
How many years a mountain can exist before it is washed to the sea?
It depends on what the mountain is made of and whether or not it is still being uplifted. The schist rock at the bottom of the Grand Canyon was once at the bottom of island mountain. In that sense, the mountain still partially exists. The age of the rock--between 1.8 and 2 billion years old.
