Earthquakes

All about earthquakes By:

Noe Mexicano and Thomas Gainey

Compression

• Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks.

Normal Fault

• Normal fault is

In a normal fault the hanging wall slips down relative to the foot wall

Strike Slip Fault

• Strike slip fault is Rock on either side

Of a rock strike slip fault

Slip past each other

Reverse fault• A reverse fault the

hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall.

Plateau

• A plateau is a large area of flat land elavaeated high above sea level.

Syncline

• A downward fold in a rock formed by compression In earth’s crust.

Stress

• Stress is a face that acts on rock to change it’s shape or volume

Tension

• Tension pulls on the crust stretching rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle

Shearing

• Shearing- can cause masses of rock

to slip.

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Anticline

• A fold in rock that bends upward into an

Arch is an anticline.

Hanging wall The block of rock that the upper half

Of a fault.

Recourses

• http://earthsci.org/education/teacher/basicgeol/deform/syncline.gif

• http://www.readygenesee.com/images/earthquake.jpg

• http://www.durangobill.com/AncestralRivers/AfricaLufira.jpg

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http://www.disastervideo.net/earthquake-car.php