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Explain-Folding &Faulting

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Folding - It is the process when earth’s two tectonic plates converge. The collision causes a part of the Earth’s surface to rise up, creating a mountain.by compression .

Faulting - In faulting cracks and faults are created along the earth’s surface.The fault causes one block of the Earth to rift away from the other or causes the Earth’s block to move up or down.Here convergence forms a mountain.


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