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FOLDS, FAULTS, AND MOUNTAIN TYPES
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1. Volcanic 2. Folded 3. Faulted Mountains formation – Three types
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Mountains caused by Pressure As plates move, pressure builds causing bends or breaks in land. Any time crust moves it will cause an earthquake
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Folding When rock is put under stress, sometimes it bends… this is called FOLDING. These make folded mountains.
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Folds: These types of folds are called ANTICLINE folds
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Folds: These types of folds are called SYNCLINE folds.
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Folds: When one side moves up and the other moves down, these types of folds are called MONOCLINE folds
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Faults Section Sometimes rock doesn’t bend, but it breaks instead… this is called FAULTING. These make Faulted Mountains There are 3 types of faults: Normal Fault Reverse Fault Strike Slip Fault
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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
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Normal Fault
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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.
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Reverse Faults View of the hanging wall
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Faults When rocks are pulled apart One slab of rock slides DOWNWARD When rocks are pushed together One slab of rock slides UPWARD Normal FaultReverse Fault
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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.
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Strike Slip Faults
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Type of pressure applied DescriptionBoundary or movement type Fault Type CompressionPushing Together ConvergentReverse TensionPulling ApartDivergentNormal ShearingSliding PastTransformStrike-Slip
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