Formation of mountains and plateaus  by  Joab Otieno

6

Block mountains are formed through a process called faulting.Forces acting on the earth cause cracks on the earth crust.This cracks are called faults.

What can you see in the images?

The cracks are called faults.

Underground forces push the land between the two faults upward.

This results to formation of Block mountainAnother name of block mountain is Horst mountain.

List examples of blockmountains in Eastern Africa.


Exercise

List 5 examples of block mountains in Eastern Africa.
 

Answers

  • Pare
  • Danakil Alps
  • Usambara
  • Mau ranges
  • Aberdare ranges

 



  • 08b67fb1-9a80-4d08-ab20-fcc0dad1399d by elimu used under CC_BY-SA
  • 0a65c1bc-09b5-4452-8b94-7a3d223929cf by elimu used under CC_BY-SA
  • 1cddbf37-c5e5-4b8c-a3db-26e6c07c2415 by elimu used under CC_BY-SA
  • 2ced05e3-a9ec-49fd-81dc-6d51700b41fb by elimu used under CC_BY-SA
  • 5a38c749-ee1c-4595-8948-13e5e9b2a2d0 by elimu used under CC_BY-SA
  • 729e1502-75b5-444d-83a4-057c2eab301a by elimu used under CC_BY-SA

  • Creative Commons License
    All work unless implicitly stated is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.