Folds and Faults

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Causes of rock deformation

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Stress in the earth's crust

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Factor influencing rock strength and deformation:

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Temperature

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Type of fold: downfolds or troughs

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synclines

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Processes that create a mountain belt.

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Orogenesis

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Major force forming folded mountains.

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Compressional force

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Normal faulting occurs due to tensional stresses that stretch the crust.

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True

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Most mountain building occurs at convergent plate boundaries.

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True

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Compressional forces that fold and metamorphose thick sediment layers: ____________

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colliding plates

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Convergent boundary: collision of continental plates forms folded mountains.

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True

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Hawaiian Islands formed at a ______ ____________.

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hot spot