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Folds and Faults
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Tectonic Plates
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Types of Differential Stress 123
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Ductile Deformation Rock will flow in response to stress Rock will change shape during flow Example: Copper penny on train tracks
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Brittle Deformation Rock will break in response to stress Example: Glass objects, broken bones
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Deforming Marble Shallow Crust Brittle Deeper Crust Ductile M.S. Patterson, Australian National University
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AnticlineSyncline
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Sinclair Dome, near Rawlings, WY
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Folds
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Types of Differential Stress
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Faults Kanab, Utah
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Fault
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A break in a rock along which movement has occurred.
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Normal Fault:Rock above fault plane has moved down relative to rock below Reverse Fault:Rock above fault plane has moved up relative to rock below
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Normal Reverse Strike-Slip
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Normal Fault
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Rift Valley
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Reverse Fault
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Jurassic Sandstone Devonian Limestone Thrust Fault
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San Andreas Fault Carrizo Plain, CA
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