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Encounter Geosystems Ch. 9

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Submitted By jrprz91
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These are my notes for your comparison, these notes may or may not be incorrect.

1. The Richat dome is an anticline fold, or upwarped dome, circular feature that is the result of tensional stress.

2.The Richat dome is 38 KM wide.

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4. The Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf are both proof of plate convergence.

5. Tensional stress is responsible for these dip-slip, or normal and reverse type faults.

6.The Zagros mountains are the result of compressional stress while the Basin and Range Province are the result of tensional stress. Compressive stress is stress applied on a rock from opposite sides and tensional stress is a force that stretches, or elongates, the rock.

7. The San Andreas Fault is a strike-slip fault.

8. Dip-slip and strike-slip are the two types of faults found in the Gulf of California. The plates on both sides are moving horizontally and vertically.

9. Tensional stress forms a down-dropped fault block. Dip-slip fauts are created by this type of stress.

10. A) It is a divergent plate boundary. B) Tensional stress has formed this boundary. C) It is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Exploration 2

1. The Himalaya Mountains separate India and Tibet. Oceanic and continental crusts.

2. The Arabian plate is to the west of the Indian plate and they are separated by a transform plate boundary.

3. The Burma plate is to the east of the Indian plate, and they are separated by transform and divergent plate boundaries.

4. It is an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary.

5. It is an oceanic-continental convergent boundary.

6. It is an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary.

7. It is an oceanic-continental convergent boundary.

8. It is an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary.

9. The Taconic orogeny produced this mountain range during the Ordovician period.

Exploration 3

1. The outcropping is 3.26 KM from the main fault line.

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