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Vocabulary
Faulting
Folding
100
Craton
What is the stable, interior portion of a continent, usually very old crystalline rocks?
100
Fractures in the crust along which movement has occurred.
What is faulting?
100
Rocks folding upward into an arch.
What is anticline folding?
200
Tectonic accretion
What is the addition of exotic terrains to a continental land mass, usually by intense plate collisions?
200
Hanging wall down, tensional forces pulling apart.
What is normal faulting?
200
Rocks folded downward into a trough.
What is syncline folding?
300
Hanging wall up, compressional forces pushing blocks together.
What is reverse faulting?
300
A large, upwardly folding bulge.
What is a dome?
400
Low-angle reverse fault.
What is thrust vault?
400
A downward bulging fold.
What is a basin?
500
Lateral movement.
What is strike-slip vault?
500
A type of folding that isn't common. Found in Capitol Reef National Park.
What is monocline folding?