Mountain Building

The concept of a floating crust in gravitational balance is called what?

Crust collides with a continental plate becoming stuck or embedded into a continent through __.

These are downfolds or troughs.

_____ are large, step-like folds in otherwise horizontal sedimentary strata.

A(n) ______is usually formed by the unfolding,or arching, of rock layers.

A _____ occurs when the hanging wall block moves down relative to the footwall block.

When crust is stretched during normal faults, the uplifted structures are called what?

____ are reverse faults with dips of less than 45 degrees which means the rock layers bend.

Large-scale normal faults where crust is uplifted and tilted are called _____.

A ____ is a fault in which the hanging wall block moves up relative to the footwall block.

The process of establishing a new level of gravitational balance is called what?

What is it called when there is change in the original shape and/or size of a rock body?

Geologists refer to the collection of processes involved in mountain building as what?

What is the change in shape or volume of a body of rock as a result of stress?

Faults where movement is horizontal and parallel to the trend, or strike, of fault surface is?

___ are crustal fragments that have geologic history distinct from that of adjoining terranes.

When crust stretches in a normal fault, the block that drops down is called a ______.

Mountains that formed primarily by folding are called ______.

Scraps of oceanic crust and sediment from the land at a convergent boundary create a(n) ____.

What is the force per unit area acting a solid?