Geosyncline

Question 1

Geosynclines are?

Answer 1

thick pile of sediments that were deposited in a deep marine basin & subsequently compressed, deformed& uplifted in to a mountain range , with associated volcanism

Question 2

how they form mountains?

Answer 2

Intrusion of crystalline igneous rock and regional uplift It is then transformed into a belt of folded mountains

Question 3

Types of geosynclines

Answer 3

Orthogeosynclines and Parageosynclines

Question 4

Ortho geosyncline

Answer 4

These are elongated basins which become filled with very great thickness of sediments, which is subsequently deformed to form a fold mountain chain

Question 5

Ortho geosyncline

Answer 5

These are elongated basins which become filled with very great thickness of sediments, which is subsequently deformed to form a fold mountain chain.

Question 6

Para geosyncline

Answer 6

It is an opeirogenic geosynclinal basin located within a craton having oval in shape.