Fault-Block Mountains Fault-block mountains are mountains made from tectonic plate movements. When one plate moves down while the other moves up, or when these plates slide past one another, it will result in these kinds of mountains. It will first cause a rift, which will then become the ...
Types of Mountains There are actually five different kinds of mountains that we will take a closer look at: block, plateau, volcanic, dome, and folded. Block Mountains Let's make our first stop in Wyoming, where we can check out the Teton Mountains, an example of block mountains. Did ...
Here is a very nice picture of a small graben between two horsts. The Basin and Range Province of Nevada, Utah and California, is made of elongated grabens. Above the grabens, tilted fault bound blocks or horsts produce linear fault-block mountains....
Weather prediction: Be prepared for continuous rain or snow! Altostratus clouds 3. Nimbostratus:Dark, gray, shapeless cloud layers containing rain, snow, or ice pellets. They are often thick enough to block out the Sun. Weather prediction: Gloomy with persistent rain or snow Nimbostratus clouds I...
Types of jackets for men come in all shapes and sizes. Find the most essential men’s jacket styles, and learn how (and when) to wear them.
A chalet is the traditional house of shepherds in Switzerland. Today, the term refers to avacation homelocated in themountains. They usually have easy access toskiroutes and are specially designed with steep roofs to deter the accumulation of snow. ...
Wildland firefighters are trained to prevent and extinguish fires in the rugged mountains and huge plains of the Midwest and Western states. They sometimes parachute into the rugged wilderness to fight these fires. These specialized firemen are called "smoke jumpers." These firefighters also are trai...
The Eerduosi(Ordos) block located in the west of the North China Platform is a remnant of cratonic lithosphere after the North China platform had undergone "activation" in Mesozoic and "reconstruction" in Cenozoic times. The continental crust consists mainly of TTG rock assemblage while the ...
far beyond these high pressure zones. Deserts can form for other reasons, such as topographical features. For example, areas on the leeward side of mountains can createrain shadows. Rain shadows receive little precipitation because mountains block wind and moisture. There are five types of deserts...
A basemap is a fundamental building block of cartography that provides geographical context to the map and other dataset layers above it. Drive Time Map: Building an Isochrone Map The drive time map is a type of isochrone map that shows you how far you can go based on a start location and...