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Mount SneffelsThe following are key concepts that you should be familiar with after reading and studying Chapter 17: Mountain Building. To evaluate your understanding of any of the key concepts, select the corresponding Concept Quiz from the Selection Bar and answer the questions provided.


  1. Deformation: Force, and factors affecting how rocks deform.

  2. Folds – bends in rocks.

  3. Faults – movement of rocks past each other.

  4. "Orogenesis" -- the process of building mountains.

  5. Subduction and mountain-building.

  6. Collisions of continental crust: Compressional mountain-building processes.

  7. Non-compressional mountain-building processes.




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