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Please help asap! What type of fold is this? What type of stress caused this fold?
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What type of fold is this? What type of stress caused this fold?

Please help asap! What type of fold is this? What type of stress caused this fold-example-1
User Karel Striegel
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I believe anticline (caused by compressional stress)
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folds are caused by compressive stresses.

when the rocks bend upwards and make a domed shape as in the picture it is an anticline fold

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