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    A fold and thrust belt (FTB) is a series of mountainous foothills adjacent to an orogenic belt, which forms due to contractional tectonics. Fold and thrust...
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    Sevier Fold and Thrust Belt extends from southern California near the Mexican border to Canada. Basin and Range faults cut the older Sevier thrust faults...
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    Marañón fold and thrust belt (Spanish: faja corrida y plegada del Marañón) is a 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long, northwest–southeast trending belt of deformed...
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    Cordillera Oriental is formed by the Central Andean fold and thrust belt.[citation needed] The Bolivian tin belt lies in the cordillera. The cordillera...
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    Andes (redirect from Andean)
    and different amount of crustal assimilations. The Andes Mountains host large ore and salt deposits and some of their eastern fold and thrust belts act...
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    The Cape Fold Belt is a fold and thrust belt of late Paleozoic age, which affected the sequence of sedimentary rock layers of the Cape Supergroup in the...
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    Orogeny (redirect from Mountain folding)
    noncollisional orogenic belt, and such belts are sometimes called Andean-type orogens. As subduction continues, island arcs, continental fragments, and oceanic material...
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    in the formation of the Marañón fold and thrust belt. An unconformity cutting across the Marañón fold and thrust belt show the Incaic Phase ended no later...
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    relationship with the thrust belt; The longitudinal dimension of the foreland basin system is roughly equal to the length of the fold-thrust belt, and does not include...
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  • Western Belt the rocks have undergone folding as the main type of deformation. The Western Belt is generally separated from the Central Belt by the Melones...
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