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There are a few ways. The Tectonic plates can rub against each other causing friction, with folding, one of the plates bends down into the mantle of the arth causing the other plate to eventually snap back up (These are the Strongest Earthquakes). Then with faulting, the plates pull apart.
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∙ 16y agowhen tectonic plates move they cause stress in the crust.
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What is a fold in the earths crust?
A fold is a bend in a rock layer. Some folds are a few centimeters wide and others cover several kilometers. Sometimes the rock folds enough to turn completely over, and these places are called overturn, or recumbent, folds. Some folding rock layers break from the forces within the crust of the earth and these places are called faults. Folds where the rocks have been pushed upward but not turned upside down are called anticlines and the depressions between the anticlines are called synclines.
Why are thrust fault reverse faults and folds commonly found in the same place?
Thrust faults and reverse faults are essentially the same, the only difference being the angle: thrust faults have a shallow angle of 45 degrees or less from horizontal. Reverse (thrust) faults and folds usually indicate rock being compressed. In many cases folds develop along reverse faults as one fault block is dragged along another, with an anticline forming in the hanging wall.
What can scientists determine by studying folds faults and intrusions in rock?
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Were do Folds in the Earth's crust form mostly?
it is from space
What do folds in Earth's crust form mostly?
along tectonic plate boundaries
Where do folds in the earths crust form?
along tectonic plate boundaries.
Describe how the presence of faults and folds supports the idea that lithospheric plates are in motion?
Faults and folds just support the idea that there lithospheric plates are in motion because folds appear when the plates move towards each other. The faults appear when the plates drift apart and cause an empty space.
Compression is a force that changes earths crust by?
Compression is a force that changes Earth's crust by squeezing rock until it folds or breaks.
What are the different types of folds in the earths crust?
basically folds are of three types:- synclineanticlinemonocline.also folds are divided in various other basis .so there are other types also based on axis,structure etc.
Differences between a fault and a fold?
Folds are the when the rock layers bend. Faults are breaks in the rock layers. Folds are called anticlines and synclines. Faults are called reverse faults, normal faults, or strike-slip faults.
What is a fold in the earths crust?
A fold is a bend in a rock layer. Some folds are a few centimeters wide and others cover several kilometers. Sometimes the rock folds enough to turn completely over, and these places are called overturn, or recumbent, folds. Some folding rock layers break from the forces within the crust of the earth and these places are called faults. Folds where the rocks have been pushed upward but not turned upside down are called anticlines and the depressions between the anticlines are called synclines.
Why are thrust fault reverse faults and folds commonly found in the same place?
Thrust faults and reverse faults are essentially the same, the only difference being the angle: thrust faults have a shallow angle of 45 degrees or less from horizontal. Reverse (thrust) faults and folds usually indicate rock being compressed. In many cases folds develop along reverse faults as one fault block is dragged along another, with an anticline forming in the hanging wall.
What can scientists determine by studying folds faults and intrusions in rock?
w0w
When tectonic plates collide folds and faults become?
Mountain Ranges
When tectonic plates collide folds faults can become?
Mountain Ranges
When tectonic plates collide folds and faults can become?
Mountain Ranges
Where should you find folds and faults?
along tectonic plate boundaries.
