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1. Faults can be vertical or horizontal (approximately)
2. a fault is a separation or crack in the earths crust
3. when faults slide against each other they create an earthquake
4. Earthquakes can cause tsunamis
5. Earthquakes are found most commonly on fault lines
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What faults are correctly associated with which types of stress?
All faults are associated with stress, as summarised below: Normal faults - tensile stress Reverse / thrust faults - compressive stress Strike slip faults - shear stress
What are the 3 different types of rock movement in earthquakes?
Normal faults, reverse faults, and last but not least transform faults.
Normal and reverse faults are characterized mainly by?
dip-slip faults
What are the three types of fault lines?
There are three types of fault lines in the crust. There are divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries.
What types of faults are most common along divergent plate boundaries?
Oceanic-oceanic plate divergence, such as that occurring at the mid-ocean ridges.
What are 6 facts about a normal fault?
Normal faults have a hanging wall and footwall Normal Faults are common at mid-ocean ridges Normal Faults occur where the crust is being pulled apart at the divergent plate boudary. Sorry i only have 3 facts, but I anyone with the question
How do you write rhyming poem about faults?
In life's journey, faults we find, Like cracks in glass or ties that bind, But in their shadows, truths unwind, Forging strength from faults confined.
Are the three types of faults normal faults backward faults and slip faults?
No. Your terminology is close but not quite right. The three main types of faults are normal faults, reverse faults, and strike-slip faults. Strike-slip faults may also be called transform faults.
What kind fault lines are there?
There are 6 types of fault lines. Strike-slip faults, dip-slip faults, oblique- slip faults, listric faults, ring faults, and synthetic and antithetic faults.
How faults are made?
Faults are created when tectonic plates are stretching or compressing. There are two types of faults which are normal and reverse faults.
Two types of faults can result in mountains which are they?
The two types of faults that can result in mountains are reverse faults and normal faults.
How are earths faults different from your faults?
Your faults are flaws in your personality. Earth's faults are cracks in the ground along which blocks of rock move.
How are earth's faults different from your faults?
Your faults are flaws in your personality. Earth's faults are cracks in the ground along which blocks of rock move.
How are are earths faults different from your faults?
Your faults are flaws in your personality. Earth's faults are cracks in the ground along which blocks of rock move.
What is the main direction of stress on blocks of rock at normql faults reverse faults and strike-slip faults?
The main direction of the stress on blocks of rock at normal faults, reverse faults and the strike slip faults usually happens at the weak areas.
What are the faults in the cable?
Cable faults are normally categorised as (a) conductor-to-earth (ground) faults, (b) conductor-to-conductor faults, and (c) conductor-to-conductor-to earth (ground) faults. In addition to that, we can categorise them by whether they are 'high-resistance' or 'low-resistance' faults.
What does normal faulting mean?
Normal faults are when you have hanging walls that slide down relative to and below the footwall. Dip-slip faults are normal faults.
