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Tilting and folding of rock layers due sinking, uplifting, stretching, or compression of the crust usually from plate movement.
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What causes anticlines and synclines?
Anticlines and Synclines typically form during crustal deformation as the result of compression that accompanies orogenic mountain building.
Rocks fold into anticlines and synclines as a result of this?
compression
The two most common types of folds are .?
anticlines and synclines
What three features form when rocks bend?
anticlines, synclines, and monoclines
The two most common types of linear folds are?
anticlines and synclines
What causes anticlines and synclines?
Anticlines and Synclines typically form during crustal deformation as the result of compression that accompanies orogenic mountain building.
What are Folded layers of rock that form a wavelike pattern of troughs and crests called?
The most common of these are anticlines and synclines; anticlines are the "crests", while synclines are the "troughs".
Rocks fold into anticlines and synclines as a result of this?
compression
Does folding the crust produce anticlines and synclines?
yes
Does folding of the crust produce anticlines and synclines?
yes
What feature form when rocks bend?
anticlines, synclines, and monoclines
The two most common types of folds are .?
anticlines and synclines
What three features form when rocks bend?
anticlines, synclines, and monoclines
The two most common types of linear folds are?
anticlines and synclines
A valley of rolling hills is an example of what kind of fold?
anticlines and synclines
Name five kind of landforms caused by plate movement?
synclines, anticlines, folded mountains, fault-block mountains, and plateaus
What type of stress causes anticlines and synclines?
its the circulation of the rock and when it pushes together
