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What is the relationship between faults and volcanoes?
Volcanoes are usually found near convergent an divergent plate boundaries, which are themselves major faults and usually create minor faults. Minor faults can also provide a pathway for magma to reach the surface.
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 are three types of faults in Earth science?
There are strike- slip faults, normal faults, and reverse faults. A strike slip fault is where the ground moves past each other. A normal fault is where the plates move pull apart and the plates move up and down. A revers fault is where the plates push into each other and move up and down.
Where on earth is a thrust fault?
Thrust faults can be found in many mountainous regions around the world, where tectonic forces compress and deform the Earth's crust. Examples of areas with prominent thrust faults include the Himalayas in Asia, the Rocky Mountains in North America, and the Alps in Europe. These faults are characterized by older rocks being pushed up and over younger rocks along a low-angle fault plane.
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.
What are the three major types of faults are normal reverse and syncline.?
The three major types of faults are normal faults, reverse faults, and strike-slip faults. Synclines are not faults but rather geological structures that describe the folding of rock layers.
What are the major faults of a step down transformer?
A step-down transformer does just what it's designed to do, so there are no 'major' faults associated with it.
Do major rivers follow geologic faults?
Sometimes
The three major types of faults?
Normal, Reverse, Wrench
Faults are important because?
Faults are important because it can move the blocks relative to each other. And they can have a major influence on the shaping of the landscape.
What is the relationship between faults and volcanoes?
Volcanoes are usually found near convergent an divergent plate boundaries, which are themselves major faults and usually create minor faults. Minor faults can also provide a pathway for magma to reach the surface.
What major products in America spread around the world?
One major product is the ford company car, which has spread pretty much all around the world.
How many faults are in California?
247 faults or fault systems as of December 30, 2008.
What 3 major types of folds and 3 major types of faults?
I don't know the three major types of folds only 2 they are anticline and syncline
What does this quote mean The greatest of faults you should say is to be conscious of none?
The worst fault would be that you are unaware you have any faults at all. (To be walking around thinking you are perfect and free of any faults)
What is something produced by movements of faults around the lithosphere?
Earthquake
What is the major cause of death around the world?
Old age.
