Types of Folds Strike Slip faults Dip Slip Faults Mountain Building and Subduction Folds Collisional Mountain Ranges

100

What is Most commonly formed by the upfolding, or arching, of rock layers.
Anticline

100

A fracture which has shown no sign of significant displacement.
What is a joint

100

A dip slip fault is know as what?
Faults in which the movement is primarily parallel to the inclination, or dip, of the fault surface.

100

When two or more oceanic plates converge and one is subducted beneath the other.
What is Island Arcs

100

What is collision and merger of an island arc and continental block.
what are mountain blocks

200

What is often found in association with anticline are downfolds,or troughs?
synclines

200

Transform faults are known as
What is large strike slip faults.

200

In the western United States, large scale normal faults are associated with which kind of structures?
Fault block mountains

200

What is the type of process which involve the formation of the mountain belt.
What is Orogenesis

200

What is it called when the oceanic lithosphere subducts beneath the continental margin.
When does collision happen?

300

Depending on their orientation these basic folds are described as what?
Symmetrical

300

Mainly exhibit horizontal displacement parallel to the fault surface
What are strike slip faults

300

An elongated valley bounded by relatively uplifted structures are known as what?
Horsts

300

Most mountain building begins when at what boundary?
What is convergent plate boundaries.

300

The oceanic lithosphere is relatively dense and subducts under what crust?
What is the continental crust.

400

What are step like folds in otherwise horizontal sedimentary strata.
monoclines

400

The San Andreas fault cuts the continental lithosphere and accommodates the northward displacement of what state?
Southwestern California

400

A central block that is bounded by normal faults and drops as the plate separates is known as what?
Graben

400

the formation of continental volcanic arc and related tectonic feature island of the conventional margin is known as?
what is Andean

400

What is the result of crustal shortening and thickening produce what type of belt?
What are mountain belts.

500

What is it called when a upwarping produces a circular or elongated structure?
Dome

500

Parallel orientations and are the best result of a failure in the rock unit which are located where?
Outermost crusts

500

What is it called when the hanging wall block moves down relative to the footwall block?
Normal faults

500

What are two types of mountain belts that the subduction of oceanic lithosphere creates?
What is Island arcs and Andean types margins.

500

What can develop as the collision and merger of an island arc with the continental block.
what are mountain blocks?

Moutain Building

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