Geography, 27.08.2019 01:40, tiiiiffany

What type of margin do mountain building produce mountains composed entirely of preexisting crust material?

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As erosion removes the tops of mountains, the crust will rise upwards. this is an example of orogenesis mountain building due to uplift normal faulting isostatic adjustment

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Geography, 27.07.2019 17:30, tddreviews

At which type of margin does mountain building produce mountains composed entirely of preexisting crust material?

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Geography, 20.08.2019 23:00, arulanreddy3754

If you are looking for metamorphic rocks, the best place to look would be the core of a mountain range on the sea floor within a batholith in geologically young rocks at boundaries, accumulation of sediment occurs that will eventually be part of a mountain. transform divergent ocean-continent convergent strike-slip at arc-continent convergence, an island (or small portion of a continent) is welded onto the opposite because of gravitational collapse the island arc is more dense than the continent the island arc is too buoyant (less dense) to subduct at the subduction zone of a transform fault the basin-and-range province of the western united states is formed from hundreds of fault-block mountains compression creating normal faults transform faults convergent boundaries the applachain mountains are and (circle two) very young very old being uplifted being eroded roots of ancient mountains ranges that have been eroded and exposed (not covered by sedimentary rocks) on a continent are called a continental shield oceanic crust continental mountains a craton another term for mountain building is aristocracy monogamy phylogeny orogeny the present elevation of the appalachian mountains is due to the break of pangaea the formation of pangaea uplift after the previous mountain building and subsequent erosion of the appalachians a transform fault roots of ancient mountains ranges that have been eroded and are now covered with sedimentary rocks (not completely exposed) are called continental shields oceanic crust continental mountains cratons mountains that cover 1000s of kilometers and consist of many named groups of mountains are scientifically called a mountain range a mountain belt lots of mountains there is no scientific name for 1000s of kilometers of mountains the large group pf mountains that are located in the western united states are the appalachians rockies alps ande

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Social Studies, 29.09.2019 01:30, galaxyworld36

How does erosion shape mountains? a. it creates pressures in earth's crust that cause it to bend. b. it removes material from mountains, changing their shapes. c. by breaking down material on earth's surface, it changes mountains' shapes. d. the friction between plates of earth's crust pushes up mountains.

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