Fault-block mountains are formed by extensional stresses.
Explanation:
- Fault-block mountains are formed because of extensional stresses. They are also called tension stresses.
- These stresses pulls and stretches rocks apart which causes normal faults to form.
- The normal fault cuts through rocks, causing one to slip downward and one to move upward. Thus, fault-block mountains are formed.
- Sierra Nevada in California and Nevada is an example of a fault-block mountain.
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The geocentric model says that the earth is at the center of the cosmos or universe, and the planets, the sun and the moon, and the stars circles around it. The early heliocentric models consider the sun as the center, and the planets revolve around the sun.
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Iceberg forms when a glacier
reaches the sea coast and when large chunks of ice calve (break off) and float away.
