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The diagram below shows a types of fold.

      

The diagram below shows a types of fold.

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Name the features marked x, y and z

With the aid of a labelled diagram, describe how an over thrust fold is formed.

Explain four effects of fold mountains on climate.

Form four students in your school are planning to study land forms through field work.Give four reasons why it is important to study the folded land forms through fieldwork.

  

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Martin
X – Limb
Y – Anticline
Z – Syncline

-layers of rocks of the earth’s crust are subjected to compressional forces.
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-Intense folding result in the formation of an over fold.
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-with increased pressure, the over fold result in the formation of a recumbent fold.
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when pressure is very great a fracture occurs along the axis in the recumbent fold
producing a thrust plane.
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-the upper part of the recumbent fold slides forward over the lower part along the plane resulting to the formation of an over thrust fold.
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marto answered the question on November 7, 2019 at 06:14


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