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You can usually find a normal fault in deltas, near slides, and at the edges of gravitation slumps. They can show different geometries and many can have very steep angles.
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∙ 9y agoNormal fault mostly develops in the areas where the land is stretching or pulling apart. It is commonly located in hanging walls.
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∙ 13y agoDivergent boundry or pulling apart.
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Is the Owens Valley a reverse fault?
The Owens Valley is NOT a reverse fault. This valley is a normal fault.
What motion causes normal fault?
a pulling motion causes a normal fault
What is another name of a normal fault?
In a normal fault, the fault is at an angle, so one block of rock lies above the fault while the other lies below it. The rock above it is the hanging wall and the rock below it is the footwall. In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves downwards relative to the footwall.
What characteristics of a fault tell you whether it is a normal fault or a reverse fault?
A reverse fault is in a zone of compressional faulting, rocks in the hanging wall are pushed up relative to rocks in the footwall. A normal fault is in a zone of tensional faulting, rocks in the hanging wall drop down relative to those in a footwall forming a normal fault.
Which type of fault is the result of tension and why?
Normal Fault
What type of changes to Earth's surface could happen at a normal fault?
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Is the Owens Valley a reverse fault?
The Owens Valley is NOT a reverse fault. This valley is a normal fault.
Which type of fault cause a fault-block mountain to form?
Normal Fault
Which type of fault is the result of tension forces?
A normal fault.
What kind of fault is the Owens fault?
it is a normal fault.
What motion causes normal fault?
a pulling motion causes a normal fault
What is another name of a normal fault?
In a normal fault, the fault is at an angle, so one block of rock lies above the fault while the other lies below it. The rock above it is the hanging wall and the rock below it is the footwall. In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves downwards relative to the footwall.
What are some fault?
normal fault reverse fault slip strike fault
What are the 3 fault's?
normal fault, reverse fault, strike-slip fault,
Name three different kinds of faults?
three kinds of faults are normal fault, reverse fault, and strike-slip fault.
In a fault the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall?
This is true of normal faults. In thrust or reverse faults, the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall and in strike slip faults, it moves horizontally relative to the footwall.
What characteristics of a fault tell you whether it is a normal fault or a reverse fault?
A reverse fault is in a zone of compressional faulting, rocks in the hanging wall are pushed up relative to rocks in the footwall. A normal fault is in a zone of tensional faulting, rocks in the hanging wall drop down relative to those in a footwall forming a normal fault.
