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What type of stress is most directly associated with transform faults?
Shear Stress.
How do earthquakes cause deformed ground surface?
There are a few ways this can happen. First, earthquakes are associated with movement along faults. This movement can alter the surface terrain. The shaking of an earthquake can also cause wet soil and sediment to behave like a liquid.
All faults will cause earthquakes?
It all depends on how big the fault is, bigger ones will cause bigger earthquakes, while smaller, or small ones may cause no earthquake at all.
Movement along faults often produces sharply angled rock fragments termed?
fault breccia
How are faults and earthquakes are related?
The are both related to the movement of tectonic plates.
What faults are correctly associated with which types of stress?
All faults are associated with stress, as summarised below: Normal faults - tensile stress Reverse / thrust faults - compressive stress Strike slip faults - 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 stress cause a strike slip?
The stress that causes strike-slip faults is produced by a shearing force and so is called shear stress.
What cause faults and earthquakes?
Movement of tectonic plates which are parts of the Earth's crust.
How are stress and faults related in earthquakes?
Stress and faults are both caused by tectonic plates.
Which type of fault is likely to form in an area where rock layer have been folded?
Folding is usually the result of compressional stress. This may also cause thrust / reverse faults.
What fault is associated with shear stress?
Strike slip faults and transform faults are associated with shear stress.
What type of stress faults produces reverse faults?
compression
Where are thrust faults?
by the stress
What is the main direction of stress on blocks of rock at normql faults reverse faults and strike-slip faults?
The main direction of the stress on blocks of rock at normal faults, reverse faults and the strike slip faults usually happens at the weak areas.
Where are thrust faults located?
by the stress
What types of faults formed in compressional stress?
reverse fault
