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Subduction and Mountain Building

Description
Island arc-type mountain building
Steady subduction of oceanic lithosphere

Joints
Fractures along which no appreciable displacement has occurred
Most are formed when rocks in the outer-most crust are deformed

Orogenesis – processes that collectively produce a mountain belt
Most mountain building occurs at convergent plate boundaries
Compressional mountains
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