Exam 9: Crags, cracks, and Crumples: Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building

Under which condition would a body of rock be most likely to exhibit brittle behavior?

Cratonic platforms generally show ________ topography.

Erosional processes work to remove material from mountains;thus,overtime the topography will become less ________.

Mount Marshak towers above the landscape at 5.3 km tall.The rate of uplift at Mount Marshak is 1.3 mm/yr and the rate of erosion is 1.5 mm/yr.How tall will Mount Marshak be after a million years,assuming everything remains constant?

Force-per-unit area is termed ________.

Regions where Precambrian metamorphic rocks are exposed at the surface are termed ________.

The term for a change in shape induced by stress is ________.

How is stress different from strain?

The fossil in the image below has been subjected to what type of stress?

________ is the process whereby rocks from depth are exposed at the surface during mountain building.

Explain how the mountains in the Basin and Range Province were formed?

A body of rock affected by compressive stress will likely undergo ________.

Which of these is NOT one of the components of deformation?

The fold in the image below is a(n)________.

On which plate boundary would you be most likely to find mountains?