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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

when I set off on the trail to Warner Peak - the pinnacle of Hart Mountain in southeast Oregon - I thought I was well prepared for the adventure that lay ahead on the high-sloping fault-block ...

At 40 miles long and 9 miles wide, the active fault-block mountain range known as Teton Range is the signature feature of the park. While the range’s highest peak, Grand Teton, has an impressive ...

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, ...

They learned about four mountain types: domed, folded, fault-block, and volcanic mountains, which are all visible from the top of Buttermilk — one of the reasons the class took to the summit for their ...