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created a block 650 km long and 80 km wide that consists of many individual portions tipped gently west, with east facing slips rising abruptly to produce the highest mountain front in the continental United States.
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Japsen, Peter; Chalmers, James A.; Green, Paul F.; Bonow, Johan M. (2012). "Elevated, passive continental margins: Not rift shoulders, but expressions of episodic, post-rift burial and exhumation".
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lithospheric folds, where folding is caused by horizontal compression acting on a thin to thick crust transition zone (as are all passive margins).
1066:"Diagnostic features and processes in the construction and evolution of Oman-, Zagros-, Himalayan-, Karakoram-, and Tibetan type orogenic belts" 303:.) A composite volcano or stratovolcano has a more steeply rising cone (33°-40°), because of the higher viscosity of the emitted material, and 1522: 1273: 1189: 1348: 1748: 1549: 1517: 1692: 1494: 1465: 1436: 1172: 1145: 1085: 1045: 1000: 966: 933: 898: 863: 825: 798: 740: 704: 662: 597:. Early bent plate models predicting fractures and fault movements have evolved into today's kinematic and flexural models. 1344:"Stratigraphic landscape analysis, thermochronology and the episodic development of elevated, passive continental margins" 2195: 111:
was used to explain much mountain-building. The understanding of specific landscape features in terms of the underlying
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The major mountain-building idea that was supported from the 19th century and into the 20th is the geosynclinal theory.
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is the classic example, with a slope of 4°-6°. (The relation between slope and viscosity falls under the topic of
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A shield volcano has a gently sloping cone because of the low viscosity of the emitted material, primarily
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of mountain building. The formation of mountains is not necessarily related to the
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Several movements of the Earth's crust that lead to mountains are associated with
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are more violent and less frequent than for shield volcanoes. Examples include
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Mountain environments: an examination of the physical geography of mountains
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is raised or tilted, a block mountain can result. Higher blocks are called
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Sierra Nevada Mountains (formed by delamination) as seen from the
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refers to the geological processes that underlie the formation of
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Most volcanoes occur in a band encircling the Pacific Ocean (the
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Oceanic hotspots: intraplate submarine magmatism and tectonism
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along the plate boundaries, which erupt and form mountains. A
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Geological processes that underlie the formation of mountains
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movement are an important component of mountain formation.
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Unlike orogenic mountains there is no widely accepted
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melts and drags water down with the subducting crust.
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From the late 18th century until its replacement by
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Index

Mountain building

Thrust
fault

fold
mountains
Earth's crust
tectonic plates
Folding
faulting
volcanic activity
igneous intrusion
metamorphism
orogenic process
geological structures
plate tectonics
geosyncline theory
tectonic
tectonic geomorphology
neotectonics
List of mountain types
plate tectonics
Guyot

Ushkovsky
Tolbachik
Bezymianny
Zimina
Udina

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