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Imagine the following. A road is cut by a vertical dipping fault. As you walk along the road toward the fault, at the intersection of the fault and road, you have to turn to your right and walk some distance along the fault until you encounter the continuation of the road. What would you call the fault? A. sinistral fault B. Oblique fault C. Dextral fault D. dip-slip fault E. cannot be determined

Imagine the following. A road is cut by a vertical dipping fault. As you walk along the road toward the fault, at the intersection of the fault and road, you have to turn to your right and walk some distance along the fault until you encounter the continuation of the road. What would you call the fault? A. sinistral fault B. Oblique fault C. Dextral fault D. dip-slip fault E. cannot be determined

Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
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PART 1.1 Imagine the following. A road is cut by a vertical dipping fault. As you walk along the road toward the fault, at the intersection of the fault and road, you have to turn to your right and walk some distance along the fault until you encounter the continuation of the road. What would you call the fault? A. sinistral fault B. Oblique fault C. Dextral fault D. dip-slip fault E. cannot be determined PART 1.2 The following statements hold true for thrust faults except: A. The sense of shear on the thrusts implies horizontal contraction perpendicular to ol and vertical extension. B. Thrusts will form more easily at relatively shallower levels in the crust where the lithostatic pressure is low C. Where thrusts affect a set of bedded rocks that are near horizontal in attitude, the thrusts generally follow a staircase path made up of alternating ramps and flats D. Thrust faults may be associated with strike-slip faults. E. Thrust faults may be associated with normal faults in a particular geological feature. PART 1.3 En echelon, left-stepping, right-lateral strike slip faults will likely form areas of_ A. contraction B. extension C. both extension and contraction D. co conclusion can be drawn
Transcribed Image Text:PART 1.1 Imagine the following. A road is cut by a vertical dipping fault. As you walk along the road toward the fault, at the intersection of the fault and road, you have to turn to your right and walk some distance along the fault until you encounter the continuation of the road. What would you call the fault? A. sinistral fault B. Oblique fault C. Dextral fault D. dip-slip fault E. cannot be determined PART 1.2 The following statements hold true for thrust faults except: A. The sense of shear on the thrusts implies horizontal contraction perpendicular to ol and vertical extension. B. Thrusts will form more easily at relatively shallower levels in the crust where the lithostatic pressure is low C. Where thrusts affect a set of bedded rocks that are near horizontal in attitude, the thrusts generally follow a staircase path made up of alternating ramps and flats D. Thrust faults may be associated with strike-slip faults. E. Thrust faults may be associated with normal faults in a particular geological feature. PART 1.3 En echelon, left-stepping, right-lateral strike slip faults will likely form areas of_ A. contraction B. extension C. both extension and contraction D. co conclusion can be drawn
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