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Fault (geology) Satellite image of a fault in the Taklamakan Desert. The two colorful ridges (at bottom left and top right) used to form a single continuous line, but have been split apart by movement along the fault. In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant ...
San Andreas Fault System (Banning fault, Mission Creek fault, South Pass fault, San Jacinto fault, Elsinore fault) 1300: California, United States: Dextral strike-slip: Active: 1906 San Francisco (M7.7 to 8.25), 1989 Loma Prieta (M6.9) San Ramón Fault: Chile: Thrust fault: Sawtooth Fault: Idaho, United States: Normal fault: Seattle Fault ...
With such faults, the opposite side of the fault appears to be moving right when facing the fault from either side. Both fault systems run parallel to and at the base of the ranges. Very often the same faults move laterally and vertically, simultaneously making them strike-slip and normal (i.e. oblique-slip). These two systems are also offset ...
A detachment fault is a gently dipping normal fault associated with large-scale extensional tectonics. [1] Detachment faults often have very large displacements (tens of km) and juxtapose unmetamorphosed hanging walls against medium to high-grade metamorphic footwalls that are called metamorphic core complexes.
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A transform fault or transform boundary, is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal. [ 1 ] It ends abruptly where it connects to another plate boundary, either another transform, a spreading ridge, or a subduction zone. [ 2 ] A transform fault is a special case of a strike-slip fault that also forms a plate ...
Growth faults are syndepositional or syn-sedimentary extensional faults that initiate and evolve at the margins of continental plates. [1] They extend parallel to passive margins that have high sediment supply. [2] Their fault plane dips mostly toward the basin and has long-term continuous displacement. Figure one shows a growth fault with a ...
Third grade student William Kim admires a winning science fair project on ants at Miller High School on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Aisley Soliz, a second grader at Kolda ...