Strike-slip Faults
Tectonic shear stress.
The San Andreas fault zone is located at a transform boundary, where two plates are grinding past one another horizontally. As the rocks grind past one another, shear stress causes rock to break into a series of blocks. The blocks form a series of strike-slip faults—the typical fault type along the San Andreas fault.
Strike-Slip fault is the most common fault type in the San Andreas fault system.
It is a THRUST fault The San Andreas Fault
transform fault
Transform Boundary
The San Andreas Fault is an example of a transform boundary in which plates slide past each other. This type of fault may also be known as a strike slip fault. During this plate motion, lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed. Shear stress causes the undeformed block of rock to experience tearing and smearing.
Strike-slip faults are the most common fault type around the San Andreas Fault.
It is on a transform fault boundary.
normal fault
A transform boundary.
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