fault-block mountains

Pressure from the hot spot heaves the land surface up, creating fault-block mountains.

Afterwards, subsequent rifting produced large fault-block mountains throughout the region.

Fault-block mountains often result from rifting, another indicator of tensional tectonic forces.

Fault-block mountains are formed when parts of the Earth's crust has been broken off into large block mountains.

This range of fault-block mountains experienced renewed uplift after a delamination of the lithosphere beneath them.

On the west side of Italy fault-block mountains prevail, created by a spreading or extension of the crust under the Tyrrhenian Sea.

The Ore Mountains are fault-block mountains which rise very gently in Germany, but drop very steeply into the Eger Graben.

The Sangre de Cristos are fault-block mountains with major fault lines running along both the east and west sides of the mountains and, in places, cutting through the range.

Both the Oquirrh and Wasatch Mountains are fault-block mountains created from normal-slip faults where the mountains rise at the fault and the valley floor drops.

The mountains of Italy and Greece are a combination of Folded Mountains and Fault-block mountains running in a northwest-southeast direction.

The corresponding fault-block mountains are the Taygetus Massif on the west and the Parnon Massif on the east, both limestone ridges derived from the former sea bed.

This rock formation, like the well-known Teufelsmauer, was created as a result of the formation of the fault-block mountains of the Harz and the earth movements in the northern Harz Foreland resulting from it.

Unlike the fault-block mountains of the Great Basin and the Wasatch, the Uinta Range is a folded anticline bordered by the Uinta Basin to the south and the Green River (or Wyoming) Basin to the north.

An erosion surface on the "Vishnu Basement Rocks" is covered by sedimentary rocks and basalt flows, and these rocks formed in the interval from about 1250 to 750 million years ago: in turn, they were uplifted and split into a range of fault-block mountains.