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Types of Faults

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Shearing
Stress that forces sections of rock to slide past each other
Compression
Stress that forces section of rock towards each other.
Tension
Stress that pulls sections of rock apart.
Tension
Hanging wall moves down
Compression
Hanging wall moves up
Shearing
No hanging or Footwall
Hanging wall
Located above the fault
Foot wall
Located below the fault
normal fault
hanging wall drops down relative to the footwall
normal fault
caused by tension within the crust
Horst- block of crust thrust upward between two normal faults.
Graben- dropped block of crust
reverse fault
hanging wall is pushed over the footwall
reverse fault
caused by compression
(low-angle reverse faults are called thrust faults)
strike slip (lateral)
sides of the fault slide laterally past each other
Strike-Slip/Lateral Fault
caused by shearing stress
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