Fold mountains and why folding matters

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1. How rock bends: folding and fold types
2. Fold mountains and why folding matters
3. Compressional forces that fold rock
4. Reading folds after the land is worn down
5. Modelling the types of folds
6. How fold mountains are built
7. Landforms that folding leaves behind
8. Mapping the world fold belts
9. Fold mountains of Africa and the Kenya contrast
10. Folding, farming and transport
11. Anticlines, oil traps and minerals
12. Folding, faulting and Kenya's highlands