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When a rock on one side of a fault moves down and rock on the other side moves up a what mountain is formed?
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A Block Mountain.
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What fault moves sideways past each other?
This is called a strike slip fault.
Which type of fault occurs when portion of rock moves upward leaving the other in place with a dip?
The answer is a dip-slip fault, When a portion of rock moves upward leaving the other in place with a dip this is known as a dip-slip fault.
Which type of fault occurs when a portion of rocks moves upward leaving the other in place with a dip?
The answer is a dip-slip fault, When a portion of rock moves upward leaving the other in place with a dip this is known as a dip-slip fault.
Where else are volcanoes formed other than at hot spots?
On fault lines and boarders.
Which type of fault occurs when a portion of rock moves downward leaving the other place with the overhang?
parallel normal faults.
What type of mountain is formed when rock on one side of a fault moves down and rock on the other side moves up?
A Block Mountain.
What fault moves sideways past each other?
This is called a strike slip fault.
What happens at a reverse fault?
Where fault blocks collide into each other. The most prominent example of this are the Himalayan Mountains formed by the collision of the Indian plate and the Eurasian Plate making what is called a folded mountain.
Which type of fault occurs when portion of rock moves upward leaving the other in place with a dip?
The answer is a dip-slip fault, When a portion of rock moves upward leaving the other in place with a dip this is known as a dip-slip fault.
What type of mountain would most likel be formed fro large blocks of Earth's crust tilting and moving relative to other blocks of crust?
fault block
Which type of fault occurs when a portion of rock moves upward leaving the other in place with a dip?
The answer is a dip-slip fault, When a portion of rock moves upward leaving the other in place with a dip this is known as a dip-slip fault.
How does a fault moves when it is under compression?
forwrd against each other
Which type of fault occurs when a portion of rocks moves upward leaving the other in place with a dip?
The answer is a dip-slip fault, When a portion of rock moves upward leaving the other in place with a dip this is known as a dip-slip fault.
What type of fault rocks on either side of the fault surface moves past each other?
strike-slip
What one of these mountain belts was NOT formed by a continental collision?
The Sierra Nevada and the Tetons are among the mountain ranges formed by means other than tectonic movement. Many mountain ranges are formed by fault block shifts up and down as well as sculpting by erosion, volcanoes and glaciers. The mountains that we see are most often the result of many complex interactions over long periods of time.
Mountains made of huge rocks separated from other rocks by fault are mountains?
they are formed by fault block
How a fault-block mountain form?
A fault-block mountain forms where the edges of two plates come together to create a fault. When one plate pushes up over the other one, the upper one can continue up until it is high enough to create a fault-block mountain.
