Matching Earthquake Terms
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- Causes lengthening and normal faults
- Causes tearing and smearing and strike-slip faults
- Plates slide past each other, lithosphere isn't created or destroyed
- A strike-slip fault, on a transform boundary
- Transform Boundaries
- Convergent Boundaries
- Divergent Boundaries
- Two or more lithospheric plates collide, and one plate will eventually go beneath the other
- A geological process where one plate moves under another
- The area where subduction takes place
- Reverse (thrust) faults, on a convergent boundary
- Normal fault, on a divergent boundary
- Earthquakes that occur within a plate (not on the edge)
- Landslides, liquefaction
- Causes shortening and reverse faults
- Caused by shear stress, each side of the fault moves horizontally past the other
- Caused by tensional stress, each side moves vertically, hanging wall side goes down
- Caused by compressional stress, each side moves vertically, hanging wall side goes up
- Special type of reverse fault, the fault plane is tilted at an angle that is less than 45º
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