STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 9 Flashcards
Plane of dispplacement or the actual movement surface
Fault plane
Rock mass resting on the fault plane
Hanging wall
Rock mass beneath the fault plane
Footwall
Movement parallel to the plane surface
Slip
the total amount of motion measured parallel to the direction of motion
Net Slip ot True Displacement
The net displacement of the combined Strike and Dip Slip
Rake
Heave and Throw are componets of
Dip Slip
Heave corresponds to
the horizontal component normal to the strike
Throw Corresponds to
the Vertical component
Polished fault SURFACES
Slickensides
STRIATIONS on such surfaces
Slickenlines
Aligned FIBROUS MINERALS on a movement surface
Slickenfibers
What are these three and their implication?
Lineations indicates relative movement along a surface
A british geologist who classified faults
Ernest Anderson
HW moved down relative to FW
Normal Fault
two normal fault dipping TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER produces
Graben - dropped down block
Two normal faults dipping away from each other
Horst - Up thrown block
Normal faults that exhibit concave up geometry that is STEEP plane near the surface and gentler within depths
Listric Normal Fault or Lag
Type of fault produced in conjuction with Listric Fault
Rollover Anticline
HW moved up relative to FW
Reverse and Thrust Faults
Age of Reverse Faults
45deg or greater (>45)
Age of Thrust Faults
30deg or less (<30)
Strike slip fault that compensates differences in Motion between plates
Transform Faults
faults that are approximately parallel to one another unconnected but sometimes overlap
En Enchelon Fault