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| Title: | TYPES OF GEOLOGIC FAULTS |
| Caption: | Three common types of faults and their effects on the landscape. Green and tan diagrams on the left show the landscape after movement along the fault (thick black line). (a) A strike-slip fault with horizontal displacement along the fault plane; (b) a thrust fault in which the hanging-wall (H) above the fault has moved up and over the footwall (F) below the fault; and (c) a normal fault in which the hangingwall (H) on the right side of the fault has dropped down. Gray diagrams in the right column show the directions of stress (thick arrows) and displacement (thin half arrows) along each type of the fault. |
| Keywords: | earthquakes, faults, fault planes, footwalls, hangingwalls, stresses |