Extended answer questions: • A region is characterized by numerous anticlines an

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Extended answer questions:

•           A region is characterized by numerous anticlines and synclines. There are also several faults present that appear to have formed at the same time as the folding. Without looking at any details, what type of faults would you assume them to be? Why?

•           Describe the characteristics of regions dominated by fault-block mountains such as the Basin and Range. What is their relationship to plate tectonics and why don't they create large-scale mountain belts like Andean-Type margins or continental collisions?

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Reverse faults. The folding will have been the result of compression which also generates reverse faults, in this process Hanging wall block moves up relative to footwall block

Thrust fault is nothing but Low-angle reverse fault. so the fault would be:

Reverse faults and thrust faults, because these faults form when rocks are compressed, which is the same stress state that causes rock folds.

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