fold-thrust hills — A landscape along an orogenic belt margin underlain dominantly by sedimentary rocks that have undergone intensive structural deformation via a series of sub parallel thrust faults and associated folds. The thrust faults typically merge along a … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
Maria fold and thrust belt — Ranges, Plains Thrusted Forms Country United States States … Wikipedia
Maria Fold and Thrust Belt — The Maria Fold and Thrust Belt is a series of mountain ranges in southeastern California and western Arizona that is geologically characterized by geologic structures that trend differently than it the rest of the Cordillera and Basin and Range… … Wikipedia
Fold mountain — Fold mountains are mountains formed due mainly to the effects of folding on layers within the upper part of the Earth s crust. In the time before either Plate tectonic theory developed, or the internal architecture of thrust belts became well… … Wikipedia
Fold (geology) — For other uses, see Fold (disambiguation). Very tight folds. Formation near Moruya, New South Wales, Australia … Wikipedia
Detachment fold — A detachment fold occurs as layer parallel thrusting along a detachment fault develops without upward propagation of a fault; the accommodation of the strain produced by thrusting results in the folding of the overlying rock units. As a visual… … Wikipedia
Mount Diablo Thrust Fault — The Mount Diablo Thrust Fault, also known as the Mount Diablo Blind Thrust, is a thrust fault in the vicinity of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County, California. The fault lies between the Calaveras Fault, the Greenville Fault, and the Concord… … Wikipedia
overthrust belt — (not preferred) use fold thrust hills … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
Lachlan Fold Belt — The Lachlan Fold Belt (LFB) or Lachlan Orogen is a geological subdivision of the east part of Australia. It is a zone of folded and faulted rocks of similar age. It dominates New South Wales and Victoria, also extending into Tasmania, the… … Wikipedia
Greenstone belt — Greenstone belts are zones of variably metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic sequences with associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies. The name comes from the green hue… … Wikipedia
