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Most earthquake faults, unlike California's San Andreas fault, are too deep for seismologists to watch. ... Faults allow the blocks to move relative to each other. This movement may occur rapidly, in the form of an earthquake - or may occur slowly, in the form of creep. Faults may range in length from a few millimeters...
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www.pep-c.org/typesoffaults
www.pep-c.org/typesoffaults
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Fault (geology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In geology, a fault or fault line is a planar fracture in rock in which the rock on one side of the fracture has moved with respect to the rock on the other side. Large faults within the Earth's c...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_(geology)
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Arrows on the diagrams below show the direction in which force was applied to form each type of fault. The surface between the two pieces of moving rock is called the fault plane. The part of a fault above the fault Rocks that are below the fault plane are called the footwall. ... Click each diagram to see the animation.
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www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visu...
www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es1103/es1103page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
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Two types of faults are responsible for earthquakes. Surface faults are those that break the ground surface, revealing how the rocks' original position was offset. ... ! Click the dots next to the labeled faults to see images and animations of the different types of faults...
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www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/inve...
www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es1010/es1010page02.cfm
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The three basic fault types along with their parts ... A fault is a large crack in the Earth's crust where one part of the crust has moved against another part. This movement means that faults prove the Earth is an active place. They are signs of powerful forces deep underground.
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geology.about.com/library/bl/blnutshell_fault-type.htm
geology.about.com/library/bl/blnutshell_fault-type.htm
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Plate interactions cause three different types of faulting: ... Normal faulting is most common at divergent plate boundaries, while thrusts and reverse faults develop at convergent boundaries and strike-slip faults characterize transform margins. Convergent and transform margins can have a mixture of compression,
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visearth.ucsd.edu/VisE_teach/lessons/fault_types.html
visearth.ucsd.edu/VisE_teach/lessons/fault_types.html
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photographs and description of fault types and fault zone features ... Faults and Fault Zone ... Normal faults...
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www.uoregon.edu/~millerm/faults.html
www.uoregon.edu/~millerm/faults.html
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This animation shows the differences between the three types of faults and illustrates how they are formed. View 1 shows a normal fault, View 2 shows a reverse fault, and View 3 shows a strike-slip fault.
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www.wwnorton.com/earth/egeo/animations/ch8.htm
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The Four BASIC Types Of Faults ; (This does not include growth faults) ... it is not the most common of faults. However what is normal about them is that their movement tends to follow the gravitational pull on the fault blocks involved. The fault plane on the normal fault is generally very steep. ... Two More Fault Types...
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www.tinynet.com/faults.html
www.tinynet.com/faults.html
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