Forces in the Earth's Crust
The factors that affect the deformation of rock are?
Temperature, pressure, rock type and time.
These are the three different types of folds.
anticlines, synclines, monoclines.
Volcanic mountains are mainly the product of these type of plates.
Oceanic plates.
Name one major type of mountain.
Volcanic mountains, folded mountains, fault-block mountains, and dome mountains.
The force per unit area acting on a solid
Stress
When rocks are under ________ greater than their own strength, they begin to deform.
Stress
Often found in association with anticlines are
downfolds or troughs.
An accretionary wedge forms at this type of plate interaction.
Subduction plate.
Mountains that are formed primarily by...
Compressional stress.
The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
Reverse fault
These three stresses cause rock deformation.
Compressional, tensional, shear
Faults in which the movement is horizontal and parallel to the trend, of the fault surface are called this.
Strike-slip fault.
The Himalayas are the product of this type of plate interaction.
Convergent plate boundary.
Orogenesis is o the collection of processes involved in this.
Mountain building.
DAILY DOUBLE
A scientist who studies the structure, composition, and history of Earth.
Geologist
Isostasy is the concept of this.
Floating crust in gravitational balance.
Folded mountains are primarily formed by what?
Compressional stresses.
What will happen at divergent plate boundaries?
Mountain formation.
Fault-block mountains form as what?
Large blocks of crust.
Any crustal fragment with a distinct geologic history.
Terrane
Compressional Stress does this to rocks.
Squeeze and shorten.
DAILY DOUBLE
Up and down movements of the crust can produce a variety of landforms, such as...
Plateaus, domes, and basins.
The process of accretion enlarges this.
Continental land mass.
Elongated valley bordered
Mountains that are formed primarily by compressional stresses, which create folds in the rock layers.
Folded mountains