The median home value in Emerald Isle, NC is $ 385,000. This is higher than the county median home value of $ 233,100. The national median home value is $ 185,800. The average price of homes sold in Emerald Isle, NC is $ 385,000. Approximately 18.06% of Emerald Isle homes are owned, compared to 8.55% rented, while 73.39% are vacant. Emerald Isle real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale.
Even if it be granted that the effective forces which cause the folding and dislocation of rocks are, in the last analysis, a horizontal or tangential compression, it still remains to inquire how this great force was generated. There is no general agreement concerning the solution of this problem.
Folds. 1  During plate collisions, stress can cause rock layers along continental margins to crumple into folds. 2  Folds are described as being anticline and syncline. 3  Anticline: is an upfold in the rock layers, a syncline is a downfold in the rock layer.