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 Form 2 Geography Revision Questions and Answers Set 1

A part from Rift Valley, name other features that result from faulting

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- Fault scarp; Also known as an escarpment, the scarp refers to a steep slope where the land falls from a higher ground to a lower level.
- Block mountain (Horst); This refers to an upland bordered by faults on one or more sides. Formed when earth movements lift the rocks between fault.
- Rift valley lakes; Faulting produces depression or inland basins which are later filled with water to became lakes.
- Tilt block; This refers to a landscape of angular ridges and depressions formed by a series of tilted fault blocks.


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