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A horizontally moving fault is called a strike-slip fault
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What is a fault with horizontal movement called?
Horizontal faults can be refered to as lateral faults or strike-slip faults.
What fault formed as a result of horizontal compression?
normal fault
What type of fault results from horizontal shearing between plates?
Horizontal shearing at tectonic plate boundaries results in a special type of strike slip fault known as a transform fault.
What is the difference between a foot-wall fault and the hanging wall fault?
Take the fault as an inclined plane with the earths surface as the horizontal plane.The foot wall side of the fault is always located to the side where the plane of the fault and the horizontal forms an acute angle.The hanging wall side of the fault is always located to the side of the fault where the plane of the fault and the horizontal makes an obtuse angle.The terminology takes no regard to the direction of motion of the blocks either side of the fault. Thus for a dipping fault, the Hanging Wall is the block positioned over the fault and the Foot Wall is the block positioned under it.
What mountains form from vertical fault movement?
fault block
What is a fault with horizontal movement called?
Horizontal faults can be refered to as lateral faults or strike-slip faults.
A fault with horizontal movement is called a what?
Strike-slip Fault
What is the movement asociated with a strike slip fault?
Horizontal sideways movements.
Do creep meters and laser-ranging devices meaure horizontal fault movement?
yes
Do geologists use creep meter to measure the horizontal movement along a fault?
yea
What kind of fault causes rock to move horizontally?
Generically a "fault" but there could also be an "earthquake" associated with this fracturing. A fault with where all the movement is horizontal is called a "transverse" fault. but it must be understood that there is a component of horizontal movement associated with Thrust, Reverse and Normal faults too.
Do creep meters and laser-ranging devices measure horizontal fault movement?
Yes, and so does a GPS satellite.
Creep meters and laser ranging devices measure horizontal fault movement?
Yes, and so does a GPS satellite.
How does the creep meter work?
A creep meter is a wire stretched across a fault to measure the horizontal movement from the ground.
Do Creep meters and laser-ranging devices measure horizontal fault movement.?
Yes, and so does a GPS satellite.
How does a creep-meter works?
A Creep Meter uses a wire stretched across a fault to measure horizontal movement of the ground.
How does a creep meter work?
A Creep Meter uses a wire stretched across a fault to measure horizontal movement of the ground.
