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...

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...

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...

Tilted block faulting, also called rotational block faulting, is a mode of structural evolution in extensional tectonic events, a result of tectonic plates...

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...

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...

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...

Palos Verdes Hills fault zone. The middle Miocene volcanics can be seen locally within the southwest block. The northwestern block consists of clastic...

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...

Southern California lies at the southern end of this block, where the Southern California faults create a complex and even chaotic landscape of seismic...

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...

animal communities). Uplift continues due to faulting caused by tectonic forces, creating spectacular fault block escarpments along the eastern edge of the...

mountains of Italy and Greece are a combination of folded mountains and fault-block mountains running in a northwest–southeast direction. The Hellenic Subduction...

China Sea Islands. Geologically, the main island comprises a tilted fault block, characterized by the contrast between the eastern two-thirds, consisting...

a fault-block system, where the crust – extended by the lengthening mantle below – thinned, broke along roughly parallel fault lines, and the blocks alternatively...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The White Mountains of California and Nevada are a triangular fault-block mountain range facing the Sierra Nevada across the upper Owens Valley. They...

over another rock mass). Other types of range such as horst ranges, fault block mountain or truncated uplands rarely form parallel mountain chains. However...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

and California. The province was uplifted and divided into great blocks by faults or monoclinal flexures which were exposed to long-lasting denudation...

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...

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...

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...