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 ...

There's no place quite like Steens Mountain, a 50-mile fault block mountain that rises to almost 10,000 feet above the Alvord Desert in southeastern Oregon. It's a place where you can backpack ...

Turn left at Highway 76 and continue generally east, below the steep ramparts of Palomar Mountain -- itself a "fault-block" range thrust upward several thousand feet. The Lake Henshaw reservoir ...

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, ...