Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust. Large...
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the fault. Fault breccia from Spain Earth sciences portal List of fault zones Anderson's theory of faulting Aseismic creep Fault block – Large blocks of...
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Mountain formation (section Fault blocks)
needed] There are five main types of mountains: volcanic, fold, plateau, fault-block, and dome. A more detailed classification useful on a local scale predates...
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Tilted block faulting, also called rotational block faulting, is a mode of structural evolution in extensional tectonic events, a result of tectonic plates...
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the angle of the fault plane is lower (often less than 15 degrees from the horizontal) and the displacement of the overlying block is large (often in...
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In physical geography and geology, a horst is a raised fault block bounded by normal faults. Horsts are typically found together with grabens. While a...
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Look up Block, Blocks, block, blocked, or blocks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Block or blocked may refer to: Block programming, the result of a...
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Palos Verdes Hills fault zone. The middle Miocene volcanics can be seen locally within the southwest block. The northwestern block consists of clastic...
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Fault and the Whittier Fault. In the Elsinore Trough, the Elsinore fault zone creates four graben rift valleys between the Santa Ana Mountain Block and...
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Southern California lies at the southern end of this block, where the Southern California faults create a complex and even chaotic landscape of seismic...
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of a fault block that is analogous to a cellar door: the door is hinged on the west and is slowly rising on the east. The rise is caused by a fault system...
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animal communities). Uplift continues due to faulting caused by tectonic forces, creating spectacular fault block escarpments along the eastern edge of the...
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mountains of Italy and Greece are a combination of folded mountains and fault-block mountains running in a northwest–southeast direction. The Hellenic Subduction...
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China Sea Islands. Geologically, the main island comprises a tilted fault block, characterized by the contrast between the eastern two-thirds, consisting...
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a fault-block system, where the crust – extended by the lengthening mantle below – thinned, broke along roughly parallel fault lines, and the blocks alternatively...
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fault is a key lineament following this trend. The interaction of these three sets of faults has resulted in the formation of multiple fault blocks that...
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A transform fault or transform boundary, is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal. It ends abruptly where it connects...
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the upthrown fault block and graben to the down dropped fault block. Sediment build-up over thousands of years filled the down-faulted basins between...
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known as horsts. Fault scarps are exposed on the horst block and expose the footwall of the normal fault. This is a type of block faulting known as grabens...
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Mountain (section Block mountains)
mountains. Block mountains are caused by faults in the crust: a plane where rocks have moved past each other. When rocks on one side of a fault rise relative...
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The White Mountains of California and Nevada are a triangular fault-block mountain range facing the Sierra Nevada across the upper Owens Valley. They...
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over another rock mass). Other types of range such as horst ranges, fault block mountain or truncated uplands rarely form parallel mountain chains. However...
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in which surfaces on both sides of a fault, known as fault blocks, separate horizontally or vertically. Faults, at the broadest level, can be differentiated...
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Transverse Ranges. The range is a large fault block of Cenozoic age created by the movements of the Santa Ynez Fault. A very narrow range, the Santa Ynez...
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Craven Fault System is the name applied by geologists to the group of crustal faults in the Pennines that form the southern edge of the Askrigg Block and...
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in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oregon, and is a large fault-block mountain. Located in Harney County, it stretches some 50 miles (80 km)...
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and California. The province was uplifted and divided into great blocks by faults or monoclinal flexures which were exposed to long-lasting denudation...
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just to the west of Delhi. The peak is not exceptionally steep and is a fault-block mountain. The north and south slopes are gentle, while the east and west...
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The Panamint Range is a short rugged fault-block mountain range in the northern Mojave Desert, within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, eastern...
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Geology of Taiwan (redirect from Lishan Fault)
slides under the Eurasian Plate. Most of the island comprises a huge fault block tilted to the west. The island is active geologically, formed on a complex...
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