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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.
The three main types of fault lines are normal faults, reverse faults, and strike-slip faults. Normal faults occur when rocks are pulled apart, reverse faults form when rocks are pushed together, and strike-slip faults happen when rocks slide past each other horizontally.
The three main types of faults are normal faults, reverse (or thrust) faults, and strike-slip faults. Normal faults occur when the crust is extended, causing one block of rock to move downward relative to another. Reverse faults happen when the crust is compressed, pushing one block up over another. Strike-slip faults involve horizontal movement, where two blocks slide past each other laterally.
The majority of faults occur in the plate boundaries.
Describe the three types of plate motion and the faults that are characteristic of each type of motion.
Not necessarily. Earthquakes occur when there is movement along cracks in the Earth's crust called faults. There are three main types of fault, all of which can produce earthquakes. Normal faults usually occur where the crust is being pulled apart. Reverse faults, also called thrust faults, are usually found where sections of the crust are pushed together. Transform faults occur where sections of the crust slide past each other horizontally, neither pushing together nor pulling apart.
Most present-day faults occur along boundaries. The three types of geologic boundaries are transform boundaries, divergent boundaries and convergent boundaries.
Transform faults occur when two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally. These faults are found in mid-ocean ridges where plates are moving apart. The movement along transform faults can result in earthquakes.
the three types of faults are normal (colliding), reverse (moving apart), strike-slip (sliding past each other)
convergent plates produce thrust faults divergent plates form normal faults transform plates form strike/slip faults
the three types of faults are normal (colliding), reverse (moving apart), strike-slip (sliding past each other)
The majority of faults occur in the plate boundaries.