Basin and range topography
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Basin and range topography is characterized by alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys. It is a result of crustal extension due to mantle upwelling, gravitational collapse, crustal thickening
View of the Basin and Range Province from space
Fault (geology)
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In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust
Basin and range topography
…confining stresses. The extension results in the thinning and deformation of the upper crust, causing it to fracture and create a series of long parallel normal faults. This results in block faulting, where the blocks of rock between the normal faults either subside, uplift, or tilt. The movement of these blocks results…
Hanging wall and footwall
Cross-section diagram of a listric fault
Cross-section diagram of multiple listric faults in a cliff wall
Structure of a fault