173k views
5 votes
PLEASE HELP! Explain how fault block mountains are formed

User Kaffekopp
by
7.8k points

2 Answers

6 votes
fault-block mountains are formed in areas of rifting. Rifting is where the crust spreads. Where rifting occurs, you will have a fault line, on one side of the fault, the crust will sink and other the other side, it will rise.
The sinking side is called a graben and the rising side is called a horst. Horsts usually form the mountain ranges called fault-block ranges
User Andrej Kyselica
by
8.4k points
1 vote
fault-block mountains are formed in areas of rifting. Rifting is where the crust spreads. Where rifting occurs, you will have a fault line, on one side of the fault, the crust will sink and other the other side, it will rise.
The sinking side is called a graben and the rising side is called a horst. Horsts usually form the mountain ranges called fault-block ranges

examples include the Grand Tetons
Mount Holyoke Range of Massachusetts
many of the ranges in the basin and range region in the American Southwest
User Anukul Limpanasil
by
8.4k points