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What is a crack in the rock of the Earth where movement has occurred?
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∙ 12y ago
A crack in the earth's crust would more correctly be termed a discontinuity (this may also be known as a fracture or fissure). A discontinuity on which relative movement has occurred is known as a fault.
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∙ 7y agoA fault is a crack in the earth's surface along which movement takes place.
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∙ 10y agoHaving a stroke is bad. Seriously it's terrible.
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∙ 8y agoA crack in the earths surface along which movement takes place
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∙ 6y agoThey're called 'fault lines' or 'plate boundaries'.
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∙ 15y agoA fault.
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∙ 13y agofault
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∙ 9y agoFault line
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What is a crack in crustal rock called?
Cracks in rocks of the crust are known broadly as discontinuities. If there is relative movement of the rocks on the two sides of the crack, then it is known as a fault. If there is not then it is known as a joint.
What is a fracture in a rock in which no appreciable movement has occurred known as?
This is known as a joint. Please see the related link.
What is the difference between an intusion and a fault?
A fault is a crack in an mass of rock or soil along which there has been a displacement, shifting or movement of the rock or soil on each side of the crack. An intrusion is a mass of igneous rock formed when molten rock (magma) squeezes or melts into preexisting rocks and crystallizes. ex: sills and dyke's
Which geologic process would make a metamorphic rock?
the movement of earth's crust.
What is most likely to make a rock crack and crumble?
stressWater freezing in a crack in a rock
What is a crack in the rock at a plate boundary called?
If there is movement of rock along this crack, then it is called a fault.
What is a crack in crustal rock called?
Cracks in rocks of the crust are known broadly as discontinuities. If there is relative movement of the rocks on the two sides of the crack, then it is known as a fault. If there is not then it is known as a joint.
What are the different kinds of fault?
A geological fault is a crack in the earth's crust where there has been movement of the rock on either side of the crack. The more common of the many types of faults are normal, reverse, thrust, and strike-slip faults.
What is the Movement within the earth that cause buried rock to be exposed at the earths surface?
The movement within the Earth that causes buried rock to be exposed at the Earth's surface is called uplift. It refers to the vertical elevation of the Earth's surface.
What is a movement within the earth that causes buried rock to be exposed at the earth's surface called?
The movement within the Earth that causes buried rock to be exposed at the Earth's surface is called uplift. It refers to the vertical elevation of the Earth's surface.
What is a fracture in a rock in which no appreciable movement has occurred known as?
This is known as a joint. Please see the related link.
What is it when melted rock can ooze out from below earth's surface through a crack in the cust what is it called?
VOLCANISM
What is the shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath the earth's surface?
Earthquakes!!!!
What is the shaking that result from the movement of rock beneath earth surface?
Earthquakes!!!!
What is fissured?
A fissure is a crack in the earth's surface.A fisher is a crack or a joint in the rock.The definition of the word fissure is "a long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting, especially in rock or earth."
How is fault - block formed?
When older rock ends up on younger rock When the Earth surface is pushed up along a crack or two.
How a block mountain is formed?
When older rock ends up on younger rock When the Earth surface is pushed up along a crack or two.
