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The fault where two blocks move horizontally.
What is a strike-slip fault?
This type of mountain can be classified as shield and cone.
What is a volcanic mountain?
The type of stress in a normal fault.
What is tensional stress?
The type of fold in picture 1.
What is an anticline?
The part of a fault that you could walk on.
What is the footwall?
A high-angle fault where the hanging wall rises with relation to the footwall.
What is a reverse fault?
The type of mountain that forms horst and graben systems.
What is a fault block mountain?
The type of stress in a reverse fault.
What is compressional stress?
The type of fold in picture 2.
What is a basin?
The tallest mountain in the world by total extent.
What is Mauna Loa?
The type of fault where the footwall rises in relation to the hanging wall.
What is a normal fault?
The type of mountain characterized by anticlines and synclines.
What is a folded mountain?
The type of fold that results from downwarping of the rock layers.
What is a basin?
The type of fold in picture 3.
What is a dome?
Mount Rainier is this type of volcano.
What is a composite volcano?
A low-angle fault that causes the hanging wall to rise in relation to the footwall.
What is a thrust fault?
Examples of this type of mountain are the Alps and Himalayas.
What is a complex mountain?
The type of fold that presents itself at the surface with the oldest rocks in the middle, and younger rock on both sides.
What is an anticline?
The type of mountain in picture 4.
What is a folded mountain?
The symbol used to indicate the direction rock layers tilt from horizontal.
What is the strike-and-dip symbol?
The faults found along horst and graben systems.
What is a normal fault?
The type of mountain that exposes batholiths at the surface.
What is a fault-block mountain?
Deformation that causes rock to bend or flow, but not fracture.
What is plastic deformation?
The type of fold in picture 5.
The most common type of mountain.
What are folded mountains?