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faults are caused by the plates under neath earth crashing together and/or parting
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Reverse failts are caused by compression. Normal faults however are formed by tension.
Stress and faults are both caused by tectonic plates.
Normal faults are caused by tensional stress, which occurs when the Earth's crust is being pulled apart. This causes the hanging wall to move downward relative to the footwall, resulting in the formation of a normal fault.
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Yes, a strike-slip fault is caused by shearing.
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yes tension pulls the rocks apart which produces expanding faultscompression pushes the rocks together which produces crushing faultsshear slides the rocks past each other which produces slipping faults
Normal faults are caused by tensional forces pulling rocks apart, leading to the hanging wall moving down relative to the footwall. Reverse faults are caused by compressional forces pushing rocks together, leading to the hanging wall moving up relative to the footwall.
Two faults slipping past each other caused the earthquake in Haiti. The fault slipping as the Pacific Plate slid under the South American Plate raising the Andes Mountains caused the earthquake in Chile. Or, while both were caused by moving faults, the faults moved for different reasons.