Across
- 1. The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall
- 5. The process of establishing a new level of gravitational balance
- 9. Mountains formed as crust is uplifted and tilted along normal faults
- 11. A crustal fragment with a distinct geologic history
- 12. The type of tension where rocks are squeezed or shortened
- 13. The collection of processes involved in mountain building
- 15. The hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall
- 16. Large, step-like folds in sedimentary strata
Down
- 2. Often found in association with anticlines...it is a downfold or trough
- 3. Mountains formed primarily by folding
- 4. Any change in the original shape and/or size of a rock
- 6. Formed by the upfolding, or arching, of rock layers
- 7. The force per unit area acting on a solid.
- 8. The type of tension where rocks are pulled in opposite directions
- 10. When fragments of crust collide with a continental plate they become stuck or embedded into the continent through _________
- 11. Reverse faults with dips of less than 45 degrees
- 14. The change in shape or volume of a body of rock as a result stress is called a ________