Intro

Objective 10/17/2011Identify the most common types of mountains.

Where are some good places to find fish fossils?

Mountain Building

Where in this picture would be the best place to find fish fossils?

How about right here!

Any explanations???

Could Plate Tectonics have anything to do

with it?

Mountain Building 3 types of

mountains Folded Mtns. Fault-Block Mtns. Volcanic Mtns.

Mountain Building Folded Mtns. Form when rock

layers are squeezed together and pushed upward.

Ex.: Appalachian Mtns.

In Eastern U.S. Himalayas in Asia

Mountain Building Fault-Block Mtns.

tension

Form when tension causes large blocks of the Earth’s crust to drop down

Ex.: Tetons in western Wyoming

Stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object

Mountain Building Volcanic Mtns. Forms when

magma rises through the crust onto the surface of Earth

Objective 10/17/2011

Outro

Identify the most common types of mountains.

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