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What happens when large sudden rock movements occur along a fault line?
Energy is released and earthquakes happen.
What happens along a fault beneath earth's surface during an earthquake?
If the fault is responsible for the earthquake, there will be movement (displacement) along the fault.
Movement along faults often produces sharply angled rock fragments termed?
fault breccia
A shaking of the ground caused by the sudden movement of large blocks of rock along a fault.?
That's called an earthquake.
What is it called when faults move gradually rather than suddenly?
Faults are breaks in the crust where the crust has moved. The types of dip-slip faults are normal and reverse faults. In both of these, the movement is along the slope of the fault. Sudden movements along these faults can produce fault scarps. Layers of rock being misaligned is evidence of fault movement. Fault creep is caused by slow movement along the fault.In a normal fault, the plates are moving away from each other. This is due to tension. When the fault moves, the footwall rises relative to the hanging wall. Normal faults occur at divergent boundaries, such as ocean ridges. Normal faults can produce fault-block mountains.In a reverse fault, the plates are moving towards each other. This is due to compression. Here, the footwall falls relative to the hanging wall. A thrust fault is a special type of reverse fault, where the angle is shallow. Reverse faults occur at convergent boundaries, like subduction zones.A strike-slip fault is where the two plates move horizontally past each other. The force between them is called shearing. This type of fault is often called a transform fault, because they occur at transform boundaries.
A break in the crust along which rock moves?
This is called a fault.== ==
What fault moves rock downward?
a normal fault
This type of fault occurs when rock moves downward at the fault line?
A normal fault occurs when rock is pulled apart, causing one block of rock to move downward relative to the other. This displacement is due to tensional forces acting on the earth's crust, causing the hanging wall to drop relative to the footwall along the fault plane.
When the rock of the fault surface Moves down relative to the rock below the fault surface what kind of fault forms?
This is described as a normal fault.
When the rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the Rock below the fault surface what kind of fault?
This is described as a normal fault.
What is a fracture in rock along which movement occurs?
A fracture in rock along which movement occurs is called a fault. faults are caused by stress in the Earth's crust, and can result in earthquakes when the stored energy is released through movement along the fault plane.
When the rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the rock below fault surface what kind of fault forms?
This is described as a normal fault.
When the rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the rock below the surface what kind of fault forms?
This is described as a normal fault.
What happens to rock layers along a fault?
Along a fault, rock layers can become displaced, offset, or tilted. This is due to the movement of the Earth's crust along the fault line, resulting in different rock layers being shifted relative to each other.
What fault rock above the fault surface moves downward in relation to rock below the fault surface?
This kind of fault is called a normal fault and is usually a sign of crustal extension.
When the rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the rock below the fault surface what kind of faults form?
This is described as a normal fault.
This type of fault occurs when rock above the fault moves upward at the fault line?
A reverse fault occurs when rock above the fault moves upward at the fault line. This type of fault is associated with compressional stress where the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. Reverse faults are common in regions undergoing compression, such as convergent plate boundaries.
