No limit is set to the amount of corrugation or displacement or to the strength of the faulting or folding.
In Powell's original definition of this class of rivers, he said that the valleys of the Uinta mountains are occupied by "drainage that was established antecedent to the corrugation or displacement of the beds by faulting or folding.
From the data expressed in seismograms, scientists can determine the time, the epicenter, the focal depth, and the type offaulting of an earthquake and can estimate how much energy was released.
Most faulting along spreading zones is normal, along subduction zones is thrust, and along transform faults is strike-slip.
Such local perforations are produced naturally by lines of fracture or faulting (widened at their intersections), and artificially through the sinking of deep wells.
Such a fractured rock zone which follows a plane of faulting is a fault breccia.
If the coast has risen along visible planes of faulting near the sea margin, the coast line, in addition to being even, will usually be made up of notably straight elements joined to one another.
Initial faulting of the rocks relieved some of the stress; however, with continued application of compressive forces many stages of folding and faultingwere generated.
Postdepositional faulting down dropped parts of the Fowkes protecting them from subsequent erosion.
Another cycle of folding and faulting was initiated to the east of the Absaroka fault.
The Evanston was not involved in the complex folding and faulting but it is somewhat disturbed and rests under the Wasatch Formation with angular uncomformity.
A region of faulting may continue to be so through more than one geological period.
Little is known of the mechanism of faulting or of the causes that produce it; the majority of the text-book explanations will not bear scrutiny, and there is room for extended observation and research.
But although there may be no sharp cliff, the effect of faulting upon topographic forms is abundantly evident wherever a harder series of strata has been brought in juxtaposition to softer rocks.
The sudden yielding of the strata along a plane of faulting is a familiar cause of earthquakes.
The horizontal component infaulting movements is more common than is often supposed.
It is very often bent or folded, and even more often faulted; the faultingmay be of great complexity, making it extremely difficult to follow the vein.
Erosion working down on a complex vein displaced by faulting and folding may bring several parts of the same vein to the surface, developing what seem to be separate vein apices.
In the Aspen mining district in Colorado faulting is now going on at a comparatively rapid rate.
More conspicuous are the instances of active faulting by means of sudden slips.
These phenomena are, however, equally well explained on the assumption of sudden faulting accompanied by violent shaking, which would dislodge steeply inclined beds of material beneath the ocean as it does upon the land.
Disturbances of this type are known as "tectonic" earthquakes, since they are connected with the folding and faulting of the rocks of the earth's crust.
The folding, moreover, is less intense; but in the Dolomites of Tirol there are great outbursts of igneous rock, and faulting has occurred on an extensive scale.
The breaking up of Gondwana Land is usually considered to have been caused by a series of blocks of country being let down by faulting with the consequent formation of the Indian Ocean.
Compressive forces in the Earth's crust produced some gentle folding of the strata at the close of the Cretaceous, but more pronounced folding and some faulting occurred during the Eocene Epoch, when most of the Rocky Mountains took form.
Doubtless this uplift was accomplished not by one cataclysm but by a series of small faulting movements distributed over a very long period.
Probably the time of faulting was as remote as the middle of the Tertiary period (the period just before the Ice Age, the latest chapter of the earth's history).
He reaches the plateau, studies for a while the unique coloring of the Algonkian strata just above the Granite Gorge, and sees where the faulting has raised them above the Tonto sandstones.
Here the visitor should not fail to observe the faulting in the sandstone, there being a difference in the two sides of about two hundred feet.
Dislocations take place on so grand a scale that by the upheaval of blocks of the earth's crust or the down- faulting of the blocks about one which is relatively stationary, mountains known as block mountains are produced.
The floor of the main John Day River valley was filled with gravels eroded from the rising mountains and, as the folding and faulting and erosion slowed, an extensive, broad, gently sloping surface was formed on top of the valley fill.
Faulting and erosion have completely destroyed the cones of the volcanoes from which the volcanic rocks were erupted in Miocene and Pliocene time.
View of Mount Vernon Butte and diagram of faultingalong its south slope.
Do not be faulting Finn," said Grania then, "however vexed your heart may be.
I used to serve an army on a hill, Patrick of the closed-up mind; it is a pity you to be faulting me; there was never shame put on me till now.
Michael Miskell: That's the way you do be picking at me and faulting me.
Fardy: That's the way everyone does be faulting me.
This thrust faulting was accomplished before the development of the geologically recent normal fault along the western base of the range.
The Triassic deposits of the Atlantic Coast are much broken up into large fault blocks, and this faulting probably took place as a result of the crustal disturbances toward the end of the period.
The valley itself has been produced by a combination of faulting and erosion.
Since that time the Sierras have been much cut down by erosion and they have been rejuvenated by faulting and tilting of the great earth block.
As an evidence that this movement of faulting has not yet ceased we may cite the Inyo earthquake of 1872, when there was a sudden renewal of movement of ten to twenty-five feet along this fault for many miles.
Thus, the original folding and faulting of the Rockies, Tertiary volcanic activity, late Tertiary rejuvenation, and subsequent erosion account for the present altitude and relief features of the great Rocky Mountain system.
Many ranges are either entirely due to the tilting of earth blocks by faulting or fracturing of the earth, or their present altitude, at least, is a direct result of faulting.
Many lakes, including some remarkable ones, occupy basins which are directly due to movements of the earth's crust--either faulting or warping.
If the benches are the result of step faulting or landslide scars they would not extend up the canyons.
The gradients of the continental shelf are so low and the benches are so persistent that block faulting and slump scars are excluded as general explanations.
Since the African rift valleys seem clearly to be the result of normal faulting resulting from extension of the crust, Heezen and Ewing conclude that the topography of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is largely the result of normal faulting.
This agrees with the fact that the walls of veins usually show faulting as well as crushed rock, slickensides, and other evidences of slipping.
Repetition of the strata by faulting is distinguished from repetition by folding by being in the same instead of the reverse order.
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