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Using well labelled diagrams, describe how the following are formed: (i) An anticlinal fault (ii) An overthrust fold

Using well labelled diagrams, describe how the following are formed:
(i) An anticlinal fault
(ii) An overthrust fold

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sharon
i)- Crustal rock layers are subjected to compressional forces
- This leads to formation of a massive article /up fold
- Further compression to the same crustal rocks causes stress/tension at the crest of the anticline
- Eventually a crack/fault and around the crust of the anticline called an anticline fault
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ii) - Crustal rock layers are subjected to compressional forces
- Intense folding results into formation of an overfold
- With increased pressure the over fold is compressed further to form a recumbent fold
- When pressure if very great, a fracture occurs along the axis producing a thrust plane
to form an overthrust fold
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sharon kalunda answered the question on April 17, 2019 at 13:11

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