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Also called transform faults, strike-slip faults involve a movement that is horizontal with a block of rock on one side of the fault moving in one direction, the other block of rock moving in the other direction. --> <--
The type of fault that generally occurs at a divergent boundary is a strike-slip fault. It is also referred to as a transform fault.
strike-slip has a horizontal motion
thrust or reverse fault,
This is a strike-slip fault.
This is a strike-slip fault.
Strike slip faults display horizontal or "sideways" deformation.
Take the fault as an inclined plane with the earths surface as the horizontal plane.The foot wall side of the fault is always located to the side where the plane of the fault and the horizontal forms an acute angle.The hanging wall side of the fault is always located to the side of the fault where the plane of the fault and the horizontal makes an obtuse angle.The terminology takes no regard to the direction of motion of the blocks either side of the fault. Thus for a dipping fault, the Hanging Wall is the block positioned over the fault and the Foot Wall is the block positioned under it.
Horizontal faults can be refered to as lateral faults or strike-slip faults.
Vertical and horizontal
Strike-slip Fault
normal fault
A horizontally moving fault is called a strike-slip fault
A transform boundary, or conservative plate boundary, is a type of fault at the margin of two adjacent tectonic plates were the relative motion is horizontal in either sinistral or dextral direction between the two.
Also called transform faults, strike-slip faults involve a movement that is horizontal with a block of rock on one side of the fault moving in one direction, the other block of rock moving in the other direction. --> <--
Horizontal shearing at tectonic plate boundaries results in a special type of strike slip fault known as a transform fault.