GPH 211 42 Process-Form Lab Normal Faulting Question 2

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Question 2 0 / 1 pts What is this normal faulting landform? To see this landform best, you will want to use Google Earth. Send yourself to N 39.383587° W 115.312664°. Then, importantly, make your eye altitude be 400 km above the surface. Now, look at the field of view. What term is best used to describe the general landform you are seeing? volcanic caldera Correct Answer block faulting You Answered uplifted anticlines and downwarped synclines folded mountain belt The presentation shows that this entire region goes by the name: Block Faulting. Please note that horst and graben was not a choice. That is because all of the uplifted mountains you see are horsts and the downfaulted valleys are graben. However, when there exists a sequence of horsts and grabens, we use the term block faulting.

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GPH 211 42 Process-Form Lab Normal Faulting Question 2

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