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Tectonic Landforms and Their Formation

Tectonic landforms are relief features produced by uplift or subsidence of the Earth's crust from tectonic processes like mountain building. Tectonic processes build landforms by causing blocks of the Earth's crust and mantle to move upwards, creating high elevations like mountains and plateaus, or downwards, producing low areas like rift valleys, basins, and depressions below sea level. Landforms originate from tectonic plate movements that push up mountains and hills or erosion that wears down land to form valleys and canyons, and they can exist underwater as well.

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Tectonic Landforms and Their Formation

Tectonic landforms are relief features produced by uplift or subsidence of the Earth's crust from tectonic processes like mountain building. Tectonic processes build landforms by causing blocks of the Earth's crust and mantle to move upwards, creating high elevations like mountains and plateaus, or downwards, producing low areas like rift valleys, basins, and depressions below sea level. Landforms originate from tectonic plate movements that push up mountains and hills or erosion that wears down land to form valleys and canyons, and they can exist underwater as well.

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LANDFORM

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TECTONIC LANDFORM
any of the relief features that are produced chiefly by uplift or subsidence of the Earth’s crust or by upward
magmatic movements. They include mountains, plateaus, and rift valleys.
Whereas erosion shapes landforms, their origins lie in tectonic processes that build the major structures of the
Earth. The word tectonic is derived from the Greek word tekton, which means “builder.” Tectonic processes
build landforms mainly by causing the uplift or subsidence of rock material blocks, layers, or slices of the
Earth’s crust, molten lavas, and even large masses that include the entire crust and uppermost part of the
planet’s mantle. In some areas, these processes create and maintain high elevations such as mountains and
plateaus. In others, they produce topographic depressions, as exemplified by Death Valley in the western
United States, the Dead Sea in the Middle East, or the Turfan Depression in western China. Virtually all areas
below sea level have been formed by tectonic processes.

TYPES OF PLATES TYPES OF LANDFORMS


Convergent Plate Boundary

Divergent Plate Boundary

HOW LANDFORMS ARE

Transform Plate Boundary


CREATED?
Tectonic plate movement under the Earth
can create landforms by pushing up
mountains and hills. Erosion by water
and wind can wear down land and create
landforms like valleys and canyons.
Landforms can exist under water in the
form of mountain ranges and basins
under the sea.

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