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