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At shallow crustal levels, extension can be taken up by tension fractures that sole out onto a normalfault-planeat depth.
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A thrust fault has the same sense of motion as a reverse fault, but with the dip of thefaultplaneat less than 45.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The opposite effect is that of "transpression", where converging movement of a curvedfaultplanecauses collision of the opposing sides of the fault.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The quake was the result of a strike-slip fault, whosefaultplanehas a southwest-northeast strike.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Afaultplaneis assigned to a subset that produces a minimum angular distance with the fault.
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Thisfaultplanedips 25° west and is underlain by 150 m thick cataclastic gneiss.
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The method is based on the assumption that the stria on afaultplaneis parallel to the resolved shear stress applied on this surface.
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The striation's direction reveal the movement directions in thefaultplane.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nappes form when a mass of rock is forced (or thrust) over another rock mass, typically on a low anglefaultplane.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thefaultplaneis the plane that represents the fracture surface of a fault.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The focal mechanism indicates that the earthquake was a result of thrust faulting, with a north-south direction of compression, on afaultplanetrending west-east.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thefaultplanewas 90 km long and 45 km wide.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Typically, aftershocks are found up to a distance equal to the rupture length away from thefaultplane.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The reason the precise nature of the fault is still unknown is because there is little evidence of a continuousfaultplaneon the surface.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The earthquake's focal mechanism shows reverse slip faulting on a north to northeast strikingfaultplane.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theirfaultplanedips mostly toward the basin and has long-term continuous displacement.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Similarly, afaultplaneis a planar feature that may contain linear features such as slickensides.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Basins formed through strike-slip action occur where a verticalfaultplanecurves.
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