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Faulting is caused by the stretching or compression of rock by tectonic plate movements
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Are Faulting and earthquakes are examples of brittle behavior?
yes
What is a sudden strong movement of Earth's crust?
An earthquake
Where does the most present day faulting of rock occur?
at boundaries between moving parts of the crust
What happens in thrust faulting?
The hanging wall block slips downward along the thrust fault
What is diastrophism?
Diastrophism is the general term for faulting and folding within the crust, the deformation and movement of the solid rocks of the Earth.
What happens during faulting?
What happens during faulting is that there is some kind of sudden pressure put on a section of crust. This causes it to break or crack, causing a fault.
What can up and down faulting also be called?
Reverse Faulting.
How is faulting related to earthquakes volcanoes and tsunamis?
Faulting occurs in all three of these
What is falting rock?
Faulting is caused by stress in the rock layers, the stress can break and crack the rock causing a fault. There are two types of faults a normal fault and a reverse fault.
What causes faulting?
diastrophism
How folding and faulting similar?
They both refer to the stress in the Earth exceeding the strength of a rockmass causing permanent deformations (changes of shape to occur). For more information, please see the related questions.
Why are there so many volcanos in Ethiopia?
Ethiopia is on the East African Rift system. This is the eastern part of Africa being pulled away from the rest of the continent. As it pulls away the continental crust thins causing faulting and allowing magma to rise to the surface causing volcanic eruptions.
Examine the influence in faulting on land in development in east Africa?
Examine the influence in faulting on land in development in east africa?
What is earthquake faulting?
when a trent is created
Faulting earthquakes can occur?
yes, they can
How does compression affect the crust?
faulting
Faulting is to gently contoured mountains as folding is to what?
Folding and faulting in mountains occurs because of the movement of lithospheric plates as described in the theory of plate tectonics. Continent to continent collision compresses the crust and its sedimentary cover rocks, displacing and distorting them upwards (folding) and fracturing them (faulting). Folding and faulting can also occur in oceanic crust-continental crust collisions, in areas above subduction zones.
