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What type of stress caused the San Andreas fault?
Tectonic shear stress.
What type of fault is the 1994 Northridge earthquake on?
It is a THRUST fault The San Andreas Fault
What fault type is most common in San Andreas fault system?
It's a transform boundary between two plates. The resultant fault of a transform boundary.
What stress is responsible for each fault?
The type of stress responsible for each fault ( Normal, Reverse, Sinistral, And Dextral) is shear. These four types of fault all are apart or not connected. Shear is also a way to say apart or not connected because you are pulling two things apart so they are separated. The same thing goes for the fault this is why the answer is shear.
What type of fault is the hayward fault?
The Hayward Fault is a Strike-slip Fault.
What type of stress caused the San Andreas fault?
Tectonic shear stress.
The San Andreas fault to a main type of stress?
Strike-slip Faults
What type of stress caused the fault shown in the image?
normal fault
What is a slip in geology?
A type of fault caused by two plates slidding along each other, like the San Andreas fault.
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 kinda fault is the most common in the san Andreas fault system?
Strike-Slip fault is the most common fault type in the San Andreas fault system.
What type of fault is the 1994 Northridge earthquake on?
It is a THRUST fault The San Andreas Fault
What type of boundary is marked by the san Andreas fault in California?
transform fault
What type of fault is san Andreas is?
Transform Boundary
The San Andreas fault is an excellent example of what kind of fault?
The San Andreas Fault is an example of a transform boundary in which plates slide past each other. This type of fault may also be known as a strike slip fault. During this plate motion, lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed. Shear stress causes the undeformed block of rock to experience tearing and smearing.
What type of stress and what type of fault caused the Chilean earthquake?
Compressive stress which led to thrust faulting at a convergent boundary where subduction is occurring. Please see the related question for more information.
Which type of plate boundary is associated with the San Andreas Fault?
It is on a transform fault boundary.
