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How are are earths faults different from your faults?
Your faults are flaws in your personality. Earth's faults are cracks in the ground along which blocks of rock move.
When normal faults uplift a block of rock this type of mountain forms?
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Once the elastic limit of rock is passed they break and move along surface called?
faults
Is it true that Mountains formed by blocks of rock uplifted by normal faults are called dome mountains?
No, only reverse faults can cause a mountain.
What happens to magma in a rift valley?
The magma comes from hot spots when there are faults along the rift zone
What is the main direction of stress on blocks of rock at normql faults reverse faults and strike-slip faults?
The main direction of the stress on blocks of rock at normal faults, reverse faults and the strike slip faults usually happens at the weak areas.
What happens wherever plate movement stores energy in the rock along faults?
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How are earths faults different from your faults?
Your faults are flaws in your personality. Earth's faults are cracks in the ground along which blocks of rock move.
How are are earths faults different from your faults?
Your faults are flaws in your personality. Earth's faults are cracks in the ground along which blocks of rock move.
How are earth's faults different from your faults?
Your faults are flaws in your personality. Earth's faults are cracks in the ground along which blocks of rock move.
What are the 3 different types of rock movement in earthquakes?
Normal faults, reverse faults, and last but not least transform faults.
How can faulting act as a construction force?
Rock moves upward along faults to form a mountain range.
Differences between a fault and a fold?
Folds are the when the rock layers bend. Faults are breaks in the rock layers. Folds are called anticlines and synclines. Faults are called reverse faults, normal faults, or strike-slip faults.
Why do normal faults form?
because of the ductile behavior of rock
When normal faults uplift a block of rock this type of mountain forms?
san andreas
What is the relationship between faults and joints?
A joint is a crack in rock; a fault is a crack in rock along which the rocks have been displaced.
When rock layers break and resulting surface they break and slide on?
faults occur when this happens
