What are the characteristics of young fold mountains
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Explanation:
Characteristics of fold mountains:
1)They have a great thickness of sedimentary rocks compared to rocks of the same age in adjacent regions. The maximum thickness of Mesozoic and Cenozoic rocks is over 10km in the Alps ,barely 2km to the north of young fold mountain zone.
2)Massive granitic intrusion occur up to several km in length and with the direction along the trend of the mountain ranges.
3)Structural features are related to conditions of intense pressure and include large scale recumbent fault ,nappes and Thurs, w high causes great wedges of rock to travel over the top of younger rocks
4)Recurrent seismicity is the most prominent phenomenon experienced by orogenic belts. These earthquakes are expression of the release of stresses building up in the orogenic
5)High heat flow ,which is manifested in the volcanic activity ,which it nested in the Zagreb, Malian, Central Burma ,Indonesian arc and Circum-Pacific Rockies, Andes and Japanese,Philippines and New Zealand mountain belts.
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