Mountain Building
This type of strain causes rocks to fold or fracture and NOT return to their original shape
Plastic
In this type of fold, the axial plane is inclined or vertical and the oldest rocks in the center
Plunging Anticline
The type of fold is lying on its side
Recumbent
These two types of faults form under compressional stress
Reverse and Thrust
A ____ is a fault in which the hanging wall block moves up relative to the footwall block
Reverse fault
This type old fold is a down-arched fold with youngest rocks in the center
Syncline
This type of stress causes normal faults to form.
Tension
Exotic pieces of crust that get transported on the plates to another location
Terranes
Rock that is subject to ______ will shorten by folding or faulting in the direction of applied stress
compression
Strain is ______
deformation caused by stress
The three varieties of stress _____
depend on the direction of the applied force
In a reverse fault, the _____
hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall
An anticline ____
has the oldest rocks at its core
Rocks that are tilted were deposited ____
horizontally and then were tilted into their current orientation
A fault with both dip-slip and strike-slip movement is classified as an _____ fault
oblique
An episode of mountain building during which intense deformation takes place is known as an
orogeny
Normal faults are caused by _____ stress
tensional
Crust collides with a continental plate becoming stuck or embedded into a continent through ______
Accretion
An ______ is usually formed by the arching of rock layers
Anticline
This is a circular to oval structure that has the youngest rocks in the center
Basin
The maximum angle of an inclined plane from the horizontal
Dip
This is a circular to oval structure that has the oldest rocks in the center
Dome
The principle that proposes that the Earth's crust floats on the denser mantle
Isostasty
The process of establishing a new level of gravitational balance is called what?
Isostatic adjustment/rebound
________ occurs when Earths crust rises back up to its equilibrium level after unloading of glaciers or sediments..
Isostatic rebound
This type of fold only has one single bend in rock layers
Monocline
Dip-slip faults include .....
Normal, reverse, and thrust faults
Geologists refer to an episode of mountain building as what?
Orogeny
What is the force per unit area applied to a materiel such as rock?
Stress
The San Andres Fault is a _____ fault
Strike-Slip
Faults where movement is horizontal and parallel to the strike, of fault surface are called.....
Strike-Slip Fault
In folding or fracturing
The rocks do not recover their original shape or volume
Deformation is .....
any change in the volume or shape of rocks
The thickest crust is found ___
beneath mountains
