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A Tectonic fault is where the different tectonic plates meet and it is a fault because one may be higger or thicker than the other.
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What do you call the area where two tectonic plates meet?
A fault
Name and describe the type of tectonic stress that forms fault - block mountains?
Tectonic stress forms faults and blocks mountains.
What is a fault or boundary?
Fault lines exist where one tectonic plate meets another. For example the San Andreas Fault in California is the boundary between the North American plate (on the east of the fault line) and the Pacific plate (on the west of the fault line)
Why do seismic waves originate along fault lines?
Seismic waves originate along fault lines because that is an edge of a tectonic plate. Imagine the tectonic plates as pieces of a puzzle. The fault line is the wavy side or edge in the piece and the pieces fit together. Whenever the plates move, they rub against the tectonic plates or puzzle pieces on their sides creating seismic waves.
Which plate boundaries and movements most commonly create earthquakes?
The tectonic plates and the fault lines create movements that most commonly create earthquakes. Earthquakes occur along the fault lines, causing the tectonic plates to shift.
Earthquakes occur mainly allong the edges of?
Tectonic plates and fault lines created by the movement of tectonic plates.
What is fault of earthquake?
Tectonic plates
What is the similarity between a fault and a fault zone?
A fault is where to tectonic plates meet but a fault zone is the area around a fault.
How are fault line formed?
by tectonic plates
What fault line does Japan sit on?
Japan sit on the Median Tectonic Fault Line
What is a fault on a map?
A fault line is the boundary between two tectonic plates; fault lines do not ordinarily appear on maps.
What do you call the area where two tectonic plates meet?
A fault
What is the name of the force that is causing movement at the this fault?
The force that is causing movement at this fault is called tectonic force. These forces are generated by the movement and interaction of the Earth's tectonic plates.
What is the word for a tectonic plate going under another causing mountains?
That would be called a Normal Fault. Normal Fault is when a tectonic plate appears to have moved down the fault, and the fault is said to be a normal fault.
What tectonic plate is Haiti located?
its on the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault
When the rock making up a tectonic plate breaks and moves?
A Fault(:
Where tectonic plates collide folds and fault can become?
Mountain Ranges(:
