From Rocks To Faults

The location of this area has lots of geographic landscapes caused from faults. As you can see, the rocks on both side of the small village have a tilt to it caused from compression. The rocks are pushed together and overlap. The rocks, which are made up of sedimentary rock strata. Strata rocks are mostly deposited by the ocean or anywhere where water is. The mountains in the center, far end of the image are caused the same way as the rocks. Compression caused the mountains to move up against each other and caused it to have a tilt. In the image we see Graben happening. The mountains are higher in elevation to where the city is. The valley is in a minimal vertical uplift. That is when there are spaces between higher elevated areas and has a pathway of land crossing through the center. The water in an area like the image above is called a sag pond. That is when there is a puddle of water sitting in the middle of nowhere and does not flow anywhere else.