Download - Noes And Thomass
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.
Click here to watch a earth quake video
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
http://www.dukelabs.com/Abstracts%20and%20Papers/19Primer_files/image002.jpg
http://www.disastervideo.net/earthquake-car.php