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This is called weathering

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Q: What is the breaking tilting and folding of rocks is called?
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Is breaking and tilting and folding of rocks caused by liquefaction?

Liquefaction occurs due to seismic waves affecting the density and hence pore water pressure in (usually) coarse grained soils. It does not cause the breaking, tilting or folding of rocks.


What is deformation the breaking tilting and folding of rocks caused by?

op op op oppa GANGNAM STYLE


When rocks bend with out breaking because of plate movement its called?

Folding.


What is it called when rocks bend without breaking because of plate movement?

It is called folding when rocks bend without breaking because of plate movement.


When rocks bend without breaking because of plates movement it is called?

It is called folding when rocks bend without breaking because of plate movement.


When rocks bend without breaking because of plate movement it's called .?

It is called folding when rocks bend without breaking because of plate movement.


True or false deformation is the breaking tilting and folding of rock caused by liquefaction?

Liquefaction occurs due to seismic waves affecting the density and hence pore water pressure in (usually) coarse grained soils. It does not cause the breaking, tilting or folding of rocks.


What are four ways that rocks layers can become disturbed?

2 of them are folding and tilting but i dont know the rest


What are manifestations of stress in rocks?

cracks == In addition to cracks: faulting, metamorphism to new rock types, earthquakes, tilting, and folding.


Which type of geologic event has to occur to create an angular unconformity?

The folding or tilting of rocks, followed by renewed deposition, has to occur to create an angular unconformity.


Movements in the crust that cause the faulting or folding or rocks is called?

Diastrophism.


What is caused by stress and the bending tiliting and breaking of rock?

Stress changes the shape or breaks (fractures) rocks whereas bending leads to folding