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What are the three major types of faults are normal reverse and syncline.?
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What is the difference between ridge and horst?
A ridge forms a major boundary of a catchment. A horst is the elevated block of land between two normal faults.
What did grove Gilbert discover about earthquakes?
He saw that faults were a major cause cause of earthquakes
How does the earth's surface change as a result of movement along faults?
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.
Why is geothermal energy unlikely to become a major energy source?
Geothermal heat (from under the earth) is more easily available on the faults between tectonic plates. This is why the Pacific Ring of Fire is a suitable area (California, Japan etc). In other places you have to drill down much further, often several kilometres, to reach hot rocks, and there are easier ways of obtaining renewable energy.
Why do the most earthquakes occur on the west coast?
The west coast has all sorts of plate boundaries, young mountains, and faults, thus more quakes. so when the plates rub together an earthquake occurs.
The three major types of faults?
Normal, Reverse, Wrench
What 3 major types of folds and 3 major types of faults?
I don't know the three major types of folds only 2 they are anticline and syncline
What are three major types of folds?
Anticline, Syncline, Monocline.
What are three types of faults in Earth science?
There are strike- slip faults, normal faults, and reverse faults. A strike slip fault is where the ground moves past each other. A normal fault is where the plates move pull apart and the plates move up and down. A revers fault is where the plates push into each other and move up and down.
What are the major faults around the world?
one of the major faults are that there was an open circuit on the windings.
What is the difference between ridge and horst?
A ridge forms a major boundary of a catchment. A horst is the elevated block of land between two normal faults.
What are the major faults of a step down transformer?
A step-down transformer does just what it's designed to do, so there are no 'major' faults associated with it.
Do major rivers follow geologic faults?
Sometimes
Faults are important because?
Faults are important because it can move the blocks relative to each other. And they can have a major influence on the shaping of the landscape.
What is the relationship between faults and volcanoes?
Volcanoes are usually found near convergent an divergent plate boundaries, which are themselves major faults and usually create minor faults. Minor faults can also provide a pathway for magma to reach the surface.
What factors have proven to be consistent predictors of major earthquakes?
some changes in the tilt of the land near major faults
What did grove Gilbert discover about earthquakes?
He saw that faults were a major cause cause of earthquakes
