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Bookmark or Share- Fault Lines: Facts About Cracks in the Earth | Live ScienceFaults are fractures in Earth's crust where rocks on either side of the crack have slid past each other. Sometimes the cracks are tiny, as thin as hair, with barely noticeable movement between...
- The Science of Earthquakes | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.govA normal (dip-slip) fault is an inclined fracture where the rock mass above an inclined fault moves down (Public domain.) An earthquake is what happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another. The surface where they slip is called the fault or fault plane.
- Fault (geology) - WikipediaIn geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.
- 3 Types of Faults: Normal, Reverse and Strike-Slip - Earth HowThis blog post offers a brief introduction to the most common type of fault. The 3 types of faults are: Normal faults. Reverse faults. Strike-slip faults. In this blog post, we will learn about these three types of faults and how they are formed.
- Fault and Types of Faults - Geology ScienceFaults are categorized based on movement as normal, reverse (thrust), or strike-slip. Based on geological setting, they can be found at plate boundaries (plate boundary faults) or within tectonic plates (intraplate faults). Faults can be classified by their displacement as high-angle or low-angle.
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