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What movement type is a normal fault? - answer✔Gravity does the work; extension
What movement type is a reverse fault? - answer✔Compression
What movement type is a strike-slip fault? - answer✔Lateral, along strike
What is a thrust fault? - answer✔Low angle reverse fault; moves hanging wall rocks over
footwall rocks
What causes joints? - answer✔Internal stresses
What causes expansive joints? - answer✔Removal of overlying rocks by erosin
What causes cooling joints? - answer✔Thermal contraction/expansion in relation to igneous
processes
What are systematic joints? - answer✔Parallel, regularly spaced fractures
What causes systematic joints? - answer✔Regional uniform stress
What are non-systematic joints? - answer✔Randomly orientated fractures with irregular
orcurved joint faces
What causes non-systematic joints? - answer✔Local non-uniform stresses
What is a fold? - answer✔Geological structure formed when rocks are bent or curved as a result
of plastic deformation
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