Earthquake Guided Notes
Earthquake Guided Notes
Earthquake Guided Notes
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What is stress? What is strain? How to they compare
and contrast? (make a Venn diagram): Stress- the
forces per unit area acting on a material. Strain- the
deformation of materials in response to stress.
Compare: both stress and strain have to deal with
the interaction of material. Contrast: Stress is
measured in forces per unit, while strain is not
measured, only describes the deformation of
materials.
What are the 3 different types of faults? Describe
each.
Normal Fault- form when the hanging wall drops
down. The forces that create normal faults are pulling
the sides apart, or extensional.
Reverse Fault- form when the hanging wall moves up.
The forces creating reverse faults are compressional,
pushing the sides together.
Transcurrent/Strike-Slip Faults- have walls that move
sideways, not up or down.
Type of
waves
Primary
Materials &
Description
-are alternatingly
compressional and
extensional, and
cause the rocks
they pass through
Sketch
Movement
Second
ary
Surface
-is a
mechanical wave
that propagates
along the
interface
between differing
media, usually as
a
gravity wave bet
ween two fluids
with different
densities.