“ Classic ” plate tectonic settings and mountain building

1. “Classic” plate tectonic settings and mountain building • Divergent boundary – fault-block mountains (horsts and grabens)

3. Steens Mountain, Oregon

4. “Classic” plate tectonic settings and mountain building • Divergent boundary – fault-block mountains (horsts and grabens) • Collision (convergent) boundary – “fold-and-thrust” belts

6. Development of a fold and thrust belt mountain range Note the asymmetry as one part of the fold overrides the other part. The low-angle reverse fault is called a thrust fault.

7. Wyoming foreland – Rockies

8. “Classic” plate tectonic settings and mountain building • Divergent boundary – fault-block mountains (horsts and grabens) • Collision (convergent) boundary – “fold-and-thrust” belts • Subduction (convergent) boundary – volcanic arc mountains

9. Cascades volcanic arc

10. “Classic” plate tectonic settings and mountain building • Divergent boundary – fault-block mountains (horsts and grabens) • Collision (convergent) boundary – “fold-and-thrust” belts • Subduction (convergent) boundary – volcanic arc mountains • Transform boundaries are not associated with mountain-building

11. Origin of the Transverse Ranges “Transpressional”

12. Origin of the Sierra Nevada Relict subduction zone