Caption text Image showing show how thrust faults can move older rocks on top of younger rocks. Credit NERC Key stages Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Key Stage 5 Higher Education Lifelong learning Themes Geology Landscape Wildlife Curriculum subject Geography Science Information on the processes of continental drift and mountain building that shaped the Mendips. Keywords geological structure geomorphology continental drift mountain building unconformity thrust fault anticline pericline strata Foundations of Mendip (British Geological Survey) – Geological Structure