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Folds, Faults, and Mountain Types. Mountains formation – Three types. 1. Volcanic 2. Folded 3. Faulted. Mountains caused by Pressure. As plates move, pressure builds causing bends or breaks in land. Any time crust moves it will cause an earthquake. Folding.
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Mountains formation – Three types • 1. Volcanic • 2. Folded • 3. Faulted
Mountains caused by Pressure • As plates move, pressure builds causing bends or breaks in land. • Any time crust moves it will cause an earthquake
Folding • When rock is put under stress, sometimes it bends… this is called FOLDING. • These make folded mountains.
Folds: • These types of folds are called ANTICLINE folds
Folds: • These types of folds are called SYNCLINE folds.
Folds: • When one side moves up and the other moves down, these types of folds are called MONOCLINE folds
Faults Section • Sometimes rock doesn’t bend, but it breaks instead… this is called FAULTING. • These make Fault-Block Mountains • There are 3 types of faults: • Normal Fault • Reverse Fault • Strike Slip Fault
Normal Faults • The hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall. • Occurs when TENSION causes tectonic plates to move apart. • Happens at a divergent plate boundary
Reverse Faults • The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. (the reverse of a normal fault) • Occurs when COMPRESSION causes tectonic plates to push rocks together. • Happens at a convergent plate boundary.
Reverse Faults View of the hanging wall
Faults Normal Fault Reverse Fault • When rocks are pulled apart • One slab of rock slides DOWNWARD • When rocks are pushed together • One slab of rock slides UPWARD
Strike Slip Faults • When opposing forces called SHEARING cause the rock to break and move horizontally. • The ground appears to move to the left or right. • Happens at a transform plate boundary.