Fault block mountains have long been recognized in the genetic series of land forms. Physiographers now distinguish fault scarps from fault-line scarps or erosion scarps. The criteria for recognizing ...

We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain, first formed. According to new ...

giving rise principally to relatively undissected horst and graben structure rather than to tilted fault-block mountains. The tensional origin of these faults is indicated by definite normal faulting, ...