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Which type of stress causes fault-block mountains?

Which type of stress causes fault-block mountains?-example-1

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Fault-block Mountains Where tectonic forces put enough ten- sion on the Earth's crust, a large number of normal faults can result. Fault-block mountains form when this faulting causes large blocks of the Earth's crust to drop down relative to other blocks.
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