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A normal fault.
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Type of fault that may form when rocks are pulled apart due to tension?
Rocks being pulled apart are under tension. This is found at divergent plate boundaries. It is a tension fault.
What kind of mountains form from vertical fault movement?
Block mountains form when a fault line causes rocks to move past each other. These are also called fault mountains.
What is one way a Rift Valley can form?
Continental crust is pulled apart a divergent boundary
The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located?
The youngest part of the ocean floor is found at conservative plate boundaries where oceanic crust is pulled apart and magma rises from the mantle to form new oceanic crust.
Why is a fault younger than the rocks in which it is found?
Faults are the result of "brittle deformation". This means that they occur in rocks which are not molten. A rock has to be solid before it can be faulted, and hence the rock must have formed before the fault could form within it.
Type of fault that may form when rocks are pulled apart due to tension?
Rocks being pulled apart are under tension. This is found at divergent plate boundaries. It is a tension fault.
What is a type of fault that may form when rocks are pulled apart?
a divergent boundry
What kind of fault forms when rock is pulled apart?
A normal fault would form.
What kind of rock forms when rock is pulled apart?
A normal fault would form.
Type of fault that may form when rocks are compressed?
A reverse fault may form when rocks are compressed.
When rocks are compressed a fault may form?
A reverse fault, my friend.
Is breaking apart a verb?
Yes, "breaking apart" is the progressive form of the particle verb "break apart". E.g., "He is breaking apart the rocks" or "The rocks are breaking apart".
What is created when rocks move apart?
Rocks moving apart can cause normal faults to form, as opposed to reverse and strike-slip faults.
What kind of mountains form from vertical fault movement?
Block mountains form when a fault line causes rocks to move past each other. These are also called fault mountains.
How much rocks are on the surface of the earth?
Apart form the Oceans the earths surface is made of rocks.
What is one way a Rift Valley can form?
Continental crust is pulled apart a divergent boundary
Which type of fault occurs when rocks are pushed together as they meet?
These will form reverse or thrust faults.
