The Kanuku
Mountains also nicknamed “The Blue Mountains of Savannah.” The Kanuku Mountains
are approximately 5000 km2 in area, located in the heart of the Rupununi
Savannahs of south-western Guyana. The
Kanuku Mountains are said to be the most ecologically diverse area in Guyana. Geologically the mountains are marked with what is
called normal and reverse faulting. As Exemplified in the picture below.
Faulting arise
when underground pressure forces, pulls apart, or compresses tectonic plates, to
further creating stress. Within the event of a fault rocks tend to be weak and
break. Reverse faults are exactly the opposite of normal faults. If the hanging
wall rises relative to the footwall, you have a reverse fault. Reverse faults
occur in areas that undergo compression. Even though the mountain in disguised
by Rain Forest there are many triangular facets along the sides of the
mountains. Lining the base of the mountain valleys also form as a process of
faulting.
Within the Kanuku Mountains there is also evidence of folding. Geological folding is defined as the varied striations and waves in rock or sediment. The Kanuku Mountains show aspects of overturned folding which is a result of dominate compression from one direction.
