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The rock gets farther a part from the fault
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What happens to rocks along a fault line?
Rocks along a fault line can break and shift due to tectonic forces, causing movements such as sliding past each other or being compressed together. The friction and pressure along the fault line can lead to earthquakes when the accumulated stress is released suddenly. Over time, the rocks along a fault line can also undergo deformation, such as folding and faulting.
How can compression forces make rocks move along a reverse fault?
Trust faults typically have low dip angles. A high-angle thrust fault is called a reverse fault. A reverse fault occurs primarily across lithological units where as a thrust usually occurs within or at a low angle to lithological units.
The rocks above a what fault are forced up and over below the fault?
A reverse fault is formed here
What happens to rocks along a strike-slip fault?
The rocks move past each other horizontally.
What rocks above a fault are forced up and over the rocks below the fault?
a reverse fault
Describe how compression forces make rocks move along a reverse fault?
Compression forces push against each other, causing the rock layers to slide along a reverse fault. The rocks move upward and over each other, creating a thrust fault with an inclined fault plane. This movement is caused by the compressional stress exerted on the rocks.
What kind of fault are rocks forced up and over the rocks below?
Reverse fault
What is the difference between a normal fault and reverse fault?
A Reverse fault is happens when tectonic forces cause compression that PUSHES rocks together. Normal fault happens when tectonic forces cause tension that PULLS rocks apart.Normal fault is when the hanging block moves down relative to foot block wall where as the reverse fault is formed when the hanging block wall moves up relative to the foot block walls a result of tension and compression force respectively
Can Reverse fault cause older beds to overlie younger beds?
No, reverse faults typically place older rocks on top of younger rocks. This is a result of compressional stress in the Earth's crust that pushes rocks upward and over each other along the fault plane.
When compression pushes rocks together it creates what type of fault?
When compression pushes rocks together, it creates a reverse fault. In a reverse fault, the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall due to compression forces pushing the rocks together.
At a reverse fault what force pushes on rocks from opposite directions?
In a reverse fault, compressional forces push rocks from opposite directions, causing the rocks to move vertically along the fault plane. The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall due to this compressional force.
When rocks are compressed a fault may form?
A reverse fault, my friend.
