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What type of fault occurs when one or both portions of rock move in a horizontal direction?
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This is a strike-slip fault.
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What type of fault occurs when one or both portions of rock move in horizontal direction?
This is a strike-slip fault.
What is the difference between a foot-wall fault and the hanging wall fault?
Take the fault as an inclined plane with the earths surface as the horizontal plane.The foot wall side of the fault is always located to the side where the plane of the fault and the horizontal forms an acute angle.The hanging wall side of the fault is always located to the side of the fault where the plane of the fault and the horizontal makes an obtuse angle.The terminology takes no regard to the direction of motion of the blocks either side of the fault. Thus for a dipping fault, the Hanging Wall is the block positioned over the fault and the Foot Wall is the block positioned under it.
What is a fault with horizontal movement called?
Horizontal faults can be refered to as lateral faults or strike-slip faults.
What fault formed as a result of horizontal compression?
normal fault
What is A fault with horizontal movement?
A horizontally moving fault is called a strike-slip fault
What type of fault occurs when one or both portions of rock move in horizontal direction?
This is a strike-slip fault.
Which fault occurs in a sideways fashion?
Strike slip faults display horizontal or "sideways" deformation.
What is the difference between a foot-wall fault and the hanging wall fault?
Take the fault as an inclined plane with the earths surface as the horizontal plane.The foot wall side of the fault is always located to the side where the plane of the fault and the horizontal forms an acute angle.The hanging wall side of the fault is always located to the side of the fault where the plane of the fault and the horizontal makes an obtuse angle.The terminology takes no regard to the direction of motion of the blocks either side of the fault. Thus for a dipping fault, the Hanging Wall is the block positioned over the fault and the Foot Wall is the block positioned under it.
What is a fault with horizontal movement called?
Horizontal faults can be refered to as lateral faults or strike-slip faults.
Is the san Andreas fault horizontal or vertical?
Vertical and horizontal
What fault formed as a result of horizontal compression?
normal fault
A fault with horizontal movement is called a what?
Strike-slip Fault
What is A fault with horizontal movement?
A horizontally moving fault is called a strike-slip fault
What is transformed fault boundary?
A transform boundary, or conservative plate boundary, is a type of fault at the margin of two adjacent tectonic plates were the relative motion is horizontal in either sinistral or dextral direction between the two.
What type of plate motion causes a strike slip fault?
Also called transform faults, strike-slip faults involve a movement that is horizontal with a block of rock on one side of the fault moving in one direction, the other block of rock moving in the other direction. --> <--
What type of fault results from horizontal shearing between plates?
Horizontal shearing at tectonic plate boundaries results in a special type of strike slip fault known as a transform fault.
What is transform faults.?
A transform boundary, or conservative plate boundary, is a type of fault at the margin of two adjacent tectonic plates were the relative motion is horizontal in either sinistral or dextral direction between the two.
