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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.
What type of fault can result from horizontal shearing object plates?
strike-slip
What forms a lateral fault?
A lateral fault is when Shearing causes rock blocks to slide horizontally past each other.
What are rocks that move in opposite horizontal directions?
Convergent plate boundary.
When shearing causes areas between plates that are sliding past one another to form what?
fault mountains
What fault would create landforms through shearing stress?
strike slip fault
What type of stress force that produces a strike-slip fault is?
shearing
Are faults caused by stress?
Yes, a strike-slip fault is caused by shearing.
What stress causes a slip-strike fault?
The stress that causes strike-slip faults is produced by a shearing force and so is called shear stress.
What type of fault has shearing?
A strike-slip fault
What is the ratio of modulus of rigidity?
shearing stress to shearing strain
What type of fault is produced from shearing?
The deformation of a material so that its layers move laterally over each other. In geology, shearing bends, twists, and draws out rocks along a fault or thrust plane. Such shearing is sometimes accompanied by shattering or crushing of the rock near the fault. A shearing force acts parallel to a plane rather than perpendicularly. Shear stress is the force or forces applied tangentially to the surface of a body and causing bending, twisting, or drawing out of that body.
What is the stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions called?
The stress force that causes a mass of rock to pull or twist in opposite directions is called tension. Shearing is the stress force that causes a mass of rock to pull or twist in opposite directions.
What type of fault is caused by shearing San Andres fault in California?
A transverse fault
Which fault is most likely to occur with shearing?
Strike-slip fault
What fault is caused by shearing forces?
Transform or Strike Slip Fault
A what fault has a shearing force?
strike slip
