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Transcript
Forces in the Earth’s Crust
3 Types of Stress:
Tension
Compression
Divergent
Convergent
Shearing
Transform
Block of Rock can be:
Foot Wall
Hanging Wall
Rock Deformation from plates colliding:
Syncline
Anticline
Kinds of Faults:
1. Normal
: It’s normal to have 10 fingers
(can slide )
2. Reverse
(can’t slide )
3. Strike Slip