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Where is and what is Eltanin Transform Fault and Fracture Zone?
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What type of plate boundary is the dead sea fault zone on?
The Dead Sea fault zone is located on a Transform boundary.
What kind of plate boundary created the North Anatolian Fault Zone?
A fracture in the Earth's crust (with associated transverse or strike slip movement - similar to the San Andreas fault) that runs through the north of the country of Turkey, separating Eurasian plate and the Anatolian plate. It is associated with modern earthquakes, the loci of which which are gradually moving westwards towards Istanbul.
What kind of fault line is Haiti situated on?
Haiti is situated on a transform boundary also known as a strike slip fault zone between the Caribbean and North American plates. Please see the related question for more information.
What are the characteristics of the San Andreas Fault zone?
The San Andreas fault is part of a fault zone known as a transform fault zone where the two blocks/plates on either side move side by side (rather than on top of or away from one another.) It moves 'dextrally' (also known as right-laterally) which means if you stand on one side of it, the other side appears to move to the right. The plate boundary is about 1,200 kilometers long along the west coast of the USA through California.
Is Haiti near a plate boundary?
On a global tectonic scale, Haiti is located near the northern boundary of the Caribbean plate, close to where it meets the North American plate. This is a transform boundary. On a subregional tectonic scale, Haiti is situated on the eastern end of of a smaller plate that separates the Caribbean and the North American plates known as the Gonave micro-plate. This micro-plate and hence Haiti is bounded to the north by the Oriente Fracture Zone and to the south by the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault which are both transform faults (very similar to the San Andreas Fault in the USA). Please see the related question.
What type of plate boundary is the dead sea fault zone on?
The Dead Sea fault zone is located on a Transform boundary.
What can happen at a fracture or fault zone?
Shallow Earthquakes may happen.
What is the difference between a transform fault and the subduction zone?
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What can happen at a fault zone?
In geology, a fault or fault line is a planar fracture in rock in which the rock on one side of the fracture has moved with respect to the rock on the other side. Large faults within the Earth's crust are the result of differential or shear motion and active fault zones are the causal locations of most earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by energy release during rapid slippage along a fault. A fault that runs along the boundary between two tectonic plates is called a transform fault.Since faults do not usually consist of a single, clean fracture, the term fault zone is used when referring to the zone of complex deformation that is associated with the fault plane. The two sides of a non-vertical fault are called the hanging wall and footwall. By definition, the hanging wall occurs above the fault and the footwall occurs below the fault. This terminology comes from mining. When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall hanging above him.
What is the name of the transform fault zone that slices through two-thirds the length of California?
San andreas...
What causes earthquakes along a transform boundary?
A transform boundary is a fault zone with two plates that are horizontally sliding past each other. The sudden release of energy when the rocks fracture causes an earthquake.
What is one earths most famous transform boundaries?
The San Andreas Fault zone of western North America.
What is the name of the break in Earth's crust where movement of rock occurs?
A break in the Earth's crust along which there has been some movement is a fault. A fault is considered a planar fracture.
Explain how tectonic forces created the San Andreas fault zone What type of fault is typical of this fault zone?
The San Andreas fault zone is located at a transform boundary, where two plates are grinding past one another horizontally. As the rocks grind past one another, shear stress causes rock to break into a series of blocks. The blocks form a series of strike-slip faults—the typical fault type along the San Andreas fault.
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.
Explain how tectonic forces created the san Andreas fault zone?
The San Andreas fault is an example of a strike-slip fault. It is located at a transform boundary, and was created when the Pacific plate and North American plate ground past one another horizontally.
What kind of plate boundary created the North Anatolian Fault Zone?
A fracture in the Earth's crust (with associated transverse or strike slip movement - similar to the San Andreas fault) that runs through the north of the country of Turkey, separating Eurasian plate and the Anatolian plate. It is associated with modern earthquakes, the loci of which which are gradually moving westwards towards Istanbul.
