Earth's surface can include both oceanic and continental crust. Faults are breaks in the crust where there is movement. The movement of the crust at the major plate boundaries may result in creation of new crust, subduction and destruction of existing crust, and raising or lowering of existing crust through thickening or extension. Moving continents and oceanic plates along faults can impact weather patterns which can change deserts into tropical areas and vice versa, create glaciers, and change the course of rivers. Numerous islands, seas, and mountain ranges are also the result of crustal movement.
The constant plate movement
Geologists can determine earthquake risk by locating where faults are active and where past earthquakes have occured.
Faults which appear to have displaced rock strata horizontally are called strike slip faults. The two blocks that have been displaced move in opposite directions along the fault line.
An earthquake occurs deep in the earths crust caused by the displacement of two faults in the crust. Directly above the fault on the earths surface is called the epicenter. Which shows the aftermath of the strike slip fault that occured in the earths crust. So the strike slip fault is the effect of the displacement of the crust at that point deep in the earths crust which causes an earthquake to happen whenever there is a displacement of two faults.
Horizontal faults can be refered to as lateral faults or strike-slip faults.
The constant plate movement
earthquakes
The term is 'earthquake'.
it is the movement of plates between the surface of the earth!:0)
normal faults cause mountains to form
Most Faults Occur Where The Earths Crust Is Extended
Your faults are flaws in your personality. Earth's faults are cracks in the ground along which blocks of rock move.
Your faults are flaws in your personality. Earth's faults are cracks in the ground along which blocks of rock move.
fault
Geologists can determine earthquake risk by locating where faults are active and where past earthquakes have occured.
Faults which appear to have displaced rock strata horizontally are called strike slip faults. The two blocks that have been displaced move in opposite directions along the fault line.
Horizontal faults can be refered to as lateral faults or strike-slip faults.