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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.
Difference between normal fault and reverse fault?
The movement of the Hanging wall in the normal fault downward with the gravity whereas in the Reverse fault the hanging wall moved upward against the gravity
What ways earthquakes shake?
they can shake in reverse fault, normal fault, strike-slip fault.
what is Fault Line?
Earthquake/volcanic activity occur almost exactly the fault line where plates about
Where most earthquake's occur?
Along fault lines.
When tension forces pull apart what occur?
Normal Fault
What are the three types of faults that occur in the earth ' s crust?
normal and rivesre fault, thrust fault, dip-strike fault.
What occur along a fault?
Earthquakes occur along a fault. Near the San Andreas fault lots of earthquakes occur.
Is the San Andreas Fault a normal fault?
No, the San Andreas Fault is a strike-slip fault, not a normal fault.
What is a normal geological fault?
That the hanging wall is moved downward. They occur were two blocks of rock pull apart, by tension.
Which type of fault occur when a portion of rock move downwards leaving the other in place with an overhang?
parallel normal faults.
Which type of fault is the result of tension forces?
A normal fault.
What kind of fault is the Owens fault?
it is a normal fault.
What fault occurs at a divergent boundary?
At a divergent boundary, faults known as normal faults occur. These faults form as tectonic plates move away from each other, leading to the stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust. This results in the upper plate sliding down along the fault plane relative to the lower plate.
What is another name of a normal fault?
In a normal fault, the fault is at an angle, so one block of rock lies above the fault while the other lies below it. The rock above it is the hanging wall and the rock below it is the footwall. In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves downwards relative to the footwall.
How do fault mountains occur?
Where two plates move away from each other tension forces create many normal faults.
What motion causes normal fault?
a pulling motion causes a normal fault
