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What is the movements in the crust that cause the faulting or folding of rock?
Tectonics.
What combinations should favor folding rather than faulting?
In general, combinations of high confining pressure, low differential stress, and competent rock layers are more likely to favor folding rather than faulting. Additionally, if the orientation of pre-existing structures is more favorable for folding rather than faulting, it may lead to folding dominating over faulting in a particular scenario.
What are manifestations of stress in rocks?
cracks == In addition to cracks: faulting, metamorphism to new rock types, earthquakes, tilting, and folding.
Faulting is to gently contoured mountains as folding is to what?
Folding and faulting in mountains occurs because of the movement of lithospheric plates as described in the theory of plate tectonics. Continent to continent collision compresses the crust and its sedimentary cover rocks, displacing and distorting them upwards (folding) and fracturing them (faulting). Folding and faulting can also occur in oceanic crust-continental crust collisions, in areas above subduction zones.
What is the name of the process by which the shape of a rock changes in response to stress?
The process by which the shape of a rock changes in response to stress is called deformation. This can result in folding, faulting, or fracturing of the rock.
Compare folding and faulting?
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Stress that pushes rock in opposite derection?
Compression stress pushes rock in the opposite direction, causing it to be squeezed and compacted. This type of stress often leads to the folding and faulting of rocks as they respond to the pressure by deforming and moving.
How are folding and faulting how are they different?
How they are different: Folded rock forms when tersion makes the lithosphere break into normal faults. How they are the same: They both refer to the stress in the Earth.
What stress causes a monocline?
Verticle stress causes monocline. Verticle stress causes monocline.
What happens to rocks as they go undergo stress?
The rocks either fracture under the stress, or become compressed in different rocks known as "metamorphic".
What geologic event causes folding and faulting of layers?
Tectonic plate movement is the main geologic event that causes folding and faulting of layers in the Earth's crust. When plates collide or slide past each other, immense pressure and stress are exerted on the rocks, leading to folding or breaking along faults. These processes shape the Earth's surface and contribute to the formation of mountain ranges and other landforms.
What do the forces of faulting folding and volcanic action create?
mountains
