Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building

Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building

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Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 What Causes Rock to Deform?
  3. 3 How Do Rocks Deform? • Elastic, Brittle, and Ductile Deformation
  4. 4 Rocks Exhibiting Ductile Deformation
  5. 5 Common Types of Folds
  6. 6 Domes Versus Basins
  7. 7 Folds: Rock Structures Formed by Ductile Deformation • Monoclines
  8. 8 The East Kaibab Monocline, Arizona
  9. 9 Faults and Joints: Rock Structures Formed by Brittle Deformation
  10. 10 Hanging Wall Block and Footwall Block
  11. 11 Normal Faulting in the Basin and Range Province
  12. 12 Strike Slip Fault
  13. 13 Subduction and Mountain Building
  14. 14 Andean-Type Mountain Building
  15. 15 Collisional Mountain Belts
  16. 16 Cordilleran-Type Mountain Building
  17. 17 North American Cordillera
  18. 18 Distribution of Modern Day Oceanic Plateaus and Fragments
  19. 19 Formation of the Himalayas
  20. 20 Formation of the Appalachians
  21. 21 Earth's Varied Topography
  22. 22 The Principle of Isostasy
  23. 23 Erosion and Resulting Isostatic Adjustment of the Crust

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