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Earth Sci
Title: Earth Sci
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 679 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Earth Sci
Earth Science
Folding The process by which crustal forces deform an area of crust so that layers of rock are pushed into folds.
Faulting The process by which crustal forces cause a rock formation to break and slip along a fault.
Fold A bent or warped stratum or sequence of strata that was originally horizontal, or neatly so.
Fault A planar or gently curved fracture in the earths crust across which there has been …showed first 75 words of 679 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 679 total…rock below, causing a shortening of the section.
§ Thrust fault a reverse fault at which the dip of the fault is small, so that the overlaying block is pushed mainly horizontally.
§ Rift Valley A depression where one block looks as though it had dropped between two flanking blocks that have been pulled apart.
§ The fault must be younger than the youngest rock it cuts and older than the oldest undisrupted formation that covers it.
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