i need to know the name of a mountain that was created by faulting!!!! help!!!?
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The Teton Mt. Range in Wyoming are fault block mountains & also the Sierra Nevada in California.\n\n\nNOTE TO ABOVE: Blue Ridge which is a part of the Appalachian is created by folding & so are the Rocky Mtns.\n\n:)
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(m)\n\nIn geology, faults are discontinuities (cracks) in the Earth's crust that are the result of differential motion within the crust. Faults are the source of many earthquakes that are caused by slippage vertically or laterally along the fault. The largest examples are at tectonic plate boundaries, but many small faults are known to exist that are far from active plate boundaries.
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I was looking at the images on livescience.com yesterday - but despite the useful red circles and scale maps telling me how big this 'anomaly' is, all I can see is ice and rock.\n\nSurely something 2000+ years old and made of wood would have perished in such an exposed location? I know human remains have been found in the French/Italian Alps pretty intact but they were buried under metres of snow and ice...
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Contact - magma is injected into preexisting rock & the heat from the magma metamorphoses the rock.\n\nRegional - covers a large area; usually due to mountain forming episodes called orogenies; the mountain forming episodes are caused by two continental plates converging; neither plate subducts b/c they are both the same in density.\n\nCataclastic - occurs along faults where plates grind past each other; due to friction\n\nThere is also burial metamorphism which occurs due to great heat & pressure from burial under many layers of sediment; when heat & pressure becomes great enough, burial metamorphism becomes regional.
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Mount Wilshire (if you are referring to Wilshire Mountain, or Wilshire peak, near San Bernadino) is in the San Bernadino mountains.  These were formed by tectonic activity, not volcanic.  There is a blind thrust fault at the base of both the san bernadino and san gabriel mountains, that accommodates the motion resulting from the NW/SE -moving San Andres fault shifting to the west.  Since the pacific plate is moving NW relative to the north american plate, in the LA area, where the boundary fault trends east-west, the LA basin is being pushed against the North american plate.  This push results in a thrust fault, as the pacific plate here piles up against the N-A plate.
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Due to different tectonic plates that move in different directions, the Peninsula was formed. \n\nRight in the middle, the San Andreas fault will continue with the splitting apart of both plates, until the Peninsula and a part of California from the Sea of Cortes up to San Francisco will become an island and continue moving North toward Alaska, while the Continental Plate will continue to slide West in the next 5 million years.
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About 50 million years ago, while the Pacific Ocean tectonic plate was pounding into the North American plate, a geological event known as the Laramide Orogeny occurred. This monolith of Uinta rock was thrust slowly out of the earth with other mountains in the area. Massive faulting provided the seed in other formations. The north and south Wasatch Mountains sloped into this east and west bulge, and resulted in a complex structure that created one of this countries largest gold and silver mining districts.
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Complicted question. They're both made of a variety of rocks. Both contain ophiolitic rocks (oceanic crust), both contain accretionary melanges, made up of sea-floor sediments thrust repeatedly over each other. Both have limestone in them (top of Everest is limestone I think) and both have a load of granites in. Not a complete answer, but that would take forever.\n\nOrogenic belts (Alps, Himalayas, Andes) are complicated regions of deformation. However they have many similarities in the types of rocks they contain.
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A fault is merely a fracture in the rock along which movement has occurred.  Faults can occur on the scale of the very small, where you can measure the movement of rock on each side in millimetres, to the very large, such as the san andreas fault in the USA.  Each side of this fault has very different rock to the other as the fault has moved kilometres.  Since the rock within faults has been fractured and broken, it is generally softer than the surrounding rock causing it to preferentially erode.  Landforms such as valleys and rivers quite often follow old faults as a result of this.
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according to my source it is a volcanic remnant being... um, harvested (for lack of a better word) for lava rock.  Just a note, most active or recently (in geological history, not ours) active volcanos can be told by thier names, generally being called Mount ______, instead of ________ Mountain.  try it :)
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Read this.. http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/africa/mt_kenya.html\n\nRead this also:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kenya\n\nTry to do your homework by yourself.
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Go to www.usgs.gov.  It's a great site that gives you all sorts of information about earthquaktes, faultlines, etc. I'm not sure if you can view all of North America, but as there are so many faultlines, it may be best to view it in smaller areas.  Good luck and enjoy exploring!
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The Rockies were formed in the Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic eras during the Cordilleran orogeny. They are geologically complex, with remnants of an ancestral Rocky Mt. system and evidence that uplift, which involved almost all mountain-building processes, occurred as a series of pulses over millions of years. The mountains have since been eroded to expose ancient crystalline cores flanked by thick upturned layers of sedimentary rocks. Glaciers and snowfields, which cover portions of the northern ranges and the high peaks of the south, were at one time more extensive; throughout the system the erosional features of alpine glaciation are apparent.\n\n:)\nPeace!
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I remember reading somewhere that the great New Madrid earthquake in the early 1800s was so powerful that it caused the Mississippi River to flow in the opposite direction for a time.  I imagine that tectonic activity - movement that changes the shape of the earth's crust - would do it.
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Try Wikipedia, or perhaps your local library has a general Geology book that you can reference
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The Three Sisters are a famous rock formation in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. They are close to the town of Katoomba and are one of the Blue Mountains' most famous sights, towering 900m (~2953 ft) above the Jamison Valley.\n\nThe Sisters were formed by erosion. The soft sandstone of the Blue Mountains is easily eroded over time by wind, rain and rivers, and the cliffs surrounding the Jamison Valley are being slowly broken up. Formations like the Three Sisters are created when water seeps into small cracks in the rock, gradually enlarging them over time to form large indentations. Eventually, the Sisters will be eroded away completely.\n\nIndigenous Australian Dreamtime legend says that three sisters fell in love with three men from a neighbouring tribe, but marriage was forbidden by tribal law. Battle ensued, and the sisters were turned to stone by a witch doctor to protect them, but he was killed in the fighting and no one else could turn them back.
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try this:\nhttp://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html