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Mountain Building
Flora - Mountain Building Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a large steplike fold in otherwise horizontal sedimentary rock layers | monocline |
| the processes of folding, faulting, shearing, compression | deformation |
| a reverse fault with a dip less than 45 degrees | thrust fault |
| a fault in which the rocks above the fault plane moves up in relation to the rocks below | reverse fault |
| a mountain formed when large blocks of crust are tilted, uplifted or dropped between large normal faults | fault-block mountain |
| a downward fold in sedimentary | syncline |
| a fault in which rock above the fault plain has moved down relative to rock below | normal fault |
| a mountain created mainly by compressional forces which creates folds in rock layers | folded mountain |
| a fold in sedimentary rock layers similar to an arch | anticline |
| a fault along which the movement is horizontal | strike-slip fault |
| a circular or oblong mountain formed by uplifting of the underlying basement rock | uplifted or dome mountain |