Discuss the effects and results of Horizontal Earth Movements.
Movements which act along a horizontal plane within crustal rocks.
They are caused by tensional and compressional and shear forces.
Effects
They cause:
-Strain and stretching of crustal rocks due to stretching caused by tensional forces which cause formation of cracks or faults.
- Squeezing and shortening of crustal by compressional forces rocks which cause them which also cause formation of faults.
- Crustal rocks to shear by slipping past each other or by dividing into layers which is caused by shear forces.
Results of Horizontal Earth Movements
-results in the formation of the following features:
1. Faults
2. Rift valleys
3. fold mountains
4. Escarpments
5. Basins
6. Tilt blocks
7. Block mountains
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