EARTH SCIENCE

Platte Canyon High School
Bailey, Colorado

Useful Info

USEFUL INFORMATION
Mountains & Deformation Vocabulary

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anticline
compression
dome mountain
fault
fault-block mountains

 fold
fold mountain
graben
hanging wall
horst

isostasy
monocline
mountain
normal fault
reverse fault
scarp
strike-slip fault
syncline
tension
thrust fault
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