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The stress that causes strike-slip faults is produced by a shearing force and so is called shear stress.
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What stress causes a slip-strike fault?
The stress that causes strike-slip faults is produced by a shearing force and so is called shear stress.
What kind of stressors on the rock cause faults?
The stress that causes strike-slip faults is produced by a shearing force and so is called shear stress.
What kind of stress is formed in a strike-slip fault?
Shear Stress
What are facts about strike slip fault stress?
it is a boundary
The type of stress force that produces a strike-slip fault is?
The type of stress force that produces a strike-slip fault is transform stress. This stress occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally, causing displacement along a fault line. Strike-slip faults are often associated with transform plate boundaries, such as the San Andreas Fault in California.
What kind of stress is formed at a strike slip?
Stress forms a fault not the other way round.
What type of stress force that produces a strike-slip fault is?
shearing
What landform is strike-slip boundary?
A strike-slip fault occurs at a transform boundary. It is created when stress is added to rock, in this case the stress that is on the rock is called shearing. A fault is simply a crack in the Earth's crust, and strike-slip fault is when the two pieces of crust are sliding past one another horizontally. An example of a strike-slip fault is the San Andreas Fault in California.
What fault would create landforms through shearing stress?
A strike-slip fault would create landforms through shearing stress. In a strike-slip fault, two blocks of rock slide past each other horizontally, causing a horizontal shearing stress that can result in landforms such as fault scarps or offset river channels.
Are faults caused by stress?
Yes, a strike-slip fault is caused by shearing.
The San Andreas fault to a main type of stress?
Strike-slip Faults
What force can cause strike slip faults?
transform
