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Vada Boyer
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What force causes rocks on either side of a fault to slide past each other?
Friction This movement is also known as Transform plat boundary Movement
What can happen on the earths surface when rocks along a fault move slowly?
The movement of earth's crust along a fault is called a transform fault. At a transform fault, the plates slide past each other and crust is neither destroyed nor created. If there geological structures don't "slip" easily, energy can build up as the plates try to slide past each other. Eventually the "stuck" parts of the fault will fail and the energy stored there will be released quickly in a seismic event. An earthquake can result.
What happens when pressure builds up along a fault?
The fault locks, and stress builds up until an earthquake occurs.
Is the strike slip fault a hanging wall or a footwall?
Astrike-slip fault it when the hanging wall and the footwall slide past each other.
What is a fracture boundary?
Transform fault/boundary. Its when two plates slide past each other.
What is a result of energy being released as rocks in a fault slide past each other?
an earthquake
What forms a lateral fault?
A lateral fault is when Shearing causes rock blocks to slide horizontally past each other.
What word means a Break in earths crust where rocks can slide past each other?
transform fault
What is it called when the rocks on either side of a fault slip past each other sideways with little up or down motion?
Slip/slide fault
How are reverse fault created?
When rocks move in to each other. When two plates are constantly hitting each other, they form a convergent boundary, which forms a reverse fault. The Compression between these plates (or push) makes one slide above the other. If this happens continuously, one will be above the other, resting on it. This creates a hanging and foot wall.
What is most likely to happen along a transform fault boundary?
At these boundaries, the rocks grind and slide against each other, causing earthquakes.
What is the break in earth's crust where rocks can slide past each other?
Earthquakes with "Faults" or "Fault Lines"
What is formed when rocks slide along a cracks?
sounds like, if the rocks are plates, an earthquake... assuming this "crack" is a fault?? does this help?
What force causes rocks on either side of fault to slide past each other?
Friction This movement is also known as Transform plat boundary Movement
What force causes rocks on either side of a fault to slide past each other?
Friction This movement is also known as Transform plat boundary Movement
How are rock slide and mud slide are different?
one has rocks and the other doesnt
Shearing creates what types of faults?
In geology, shearing occurs when rocks slide past each other horizontally in opposite directions. The kind of fault created by shearing is called a strike-slip fault.
