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Which type of fault occurs when rocks are pushed together as they meet?
These will form reverse or thrust faults.
Which fault occurs in a sideways fashion?
Strike slip faults display horizontal or "sideways" deformation.
Differences between a fault and a fold?
Folds are the when the rock layers bend. Faults are breaks in the rock layers. Folds are called anticlines and synclines. Faults are called reverse faults, normal faults, or strike-slip faults.
What happens when tectonic plates to cause an earthquake?
In most cases the plates along the boundary will shift. How they shift depends on the kind of plate movement that is ocurring. In many cases the earthquake is not directly on the plate boundary, but is rather triggered by one of the many smaller faults created by the stresses found near these boundaries.
How many faults does the US have?
OK!over 99 active faults!
Where do majority of faults occurs?
The majority of faults occur in the plate boundaries.
Where do most faults occurs?
Most Faults Occur Where The Earths Crust Is Extended
Why are faults sometimes referred to as active boundaries?
because tectonic plates actively move and shift along faults
What often occurs along faults or breaks in earths crust where movement occurs?
earthquakes
Why do faults in the earth cause earthquake?
Because the earth's plates shift
Which fault occurs at divergent boundary?
Normal Faults, (Rifting).
What kind of fault occurs at divergentplate boundaries?
Normal faults.
Where do shallow focus earthquakes occurs?
Within or adjacent to faults.
What type of fault occurs because of compression?
reverse faults
When the shift occurs in the earths crust the energy radiates as what?
what does the energy come out as when a shift occurs in the earths crust called
What type of movement occurs along normal faults?
vertical... i think
What occurs when earths crust shift?
Earthquakes.
