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Take the san Andreas fault for example. It is located in California.

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What Types of landforms made by reverse faults?

Reverse faults create landforms such as thrust faults, fault scarps, and fold mountains. Thrust faults are characterized by large sheets of rock moving over one another, leading to the uplifting of landforms. Fault scarps are steep cliffs formed as a result of vertical displacement along the fault. Fold mountains are created by the compression and uplift of rock layers along a reverse fault, resulting in long mountain ranges with folded and contorted rock formations.


What group of minerals form along faults?

vein minerals form between faults.


What are the three types of plate motion and the faults that are characteristic of each motion?

convergent plates produce thrust faults divergent plates form normal faults transform plates form strike/slip faults


What kind of land is formed by the plate boundary?

The landforms that are formed at a transform boundary forms features such as fault lines and oceanic fracture zones. Fault lines are also known as strike slip faults. They produce powerful earthquakes.


How do divergent faults form?

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Faults can form in which layer of the earth?

Faults are formed at the outer solid layers of the Earth. They are developed within the earths crust or Lithosphere.


What landforms occur on transform boundaries?

Transform boundaries are characterized by lateral sliding of tectonic plates, resulting in faults and fractures in the Earth's crust. Some landforms that can occur along transform boundaries include strike-slip faults, valleys, and linear ridges formed by tectonic activity. These boundaries do not typically exhibit prominent landforms such as mountains or trenches like other plate boundaries.


How long does it take for a fault to form?

Faults can form virtually instantaneously.


What causes faults to form?

Faults form due to the movement of tectonic plates, which causes stress and deformation in the Earth's crust. When this stress exceeds the strength of the rocks, they fracture along pre-existing zones of weakness, creating faults. These faults can be normal, reverse, or strike-slip depending on the type of stress exerted during the movement.


When faults form which layer of the Earth do they form in?

Faults form in the lithosphere. This is composed of the crust and the solid rocky portion of the upper mantle. Both these parts of the crust are brittle. This means that they lose cohesion when they fail forming fractures or faults.


What form faults?

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How did michigans landforms form?

plate tictonics