write in brief about block mountains with example
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Block mountains are caused by faults in the crust: a plane where rocks have moved past each other. When rocks on one side of a fault rise relative to the other, they can form a mountain. The uplifted blocks are block mountains or horsts.
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The Great African Rift Valley (valley floor is graben),
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Explanation: Block mountains represent the upstanding parts of the ground between two faults or on either side of a rift valley or a graben. ... Block Mountains id defined as the result of faulting caused by tensile and compressive forces motored by endogenetic forces coming from within the earth, also known as fault block mountains
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