The diagram below shows a lateral fault.
1 answer:
Transforming faults case the lateral movement of plates. F and C are the arrows indicating the direction of the stress that causes the lateral fault. The correct option is A.
<h3>What is a fault?</h3>
In geology, a fault is a discontinuity in the crust due to fractures in weak areas of the rocks. Faults are formed by tectonic stresses acting on the crust.
Along these fractures, some movements make the plates on each side of the fractured slide.
There are different types of faults according to the plate slicing,
- Normal fault,
- Inverse fault,
- Transforming fault,
- Rotational fault.
In transforming faults, the plates slide laterally with each other. One moves in one direction, while the other moves in the other direction. The plane can be the same or not.
It is associated, in general, with the oceanic ridge, although it might also occur on the continental plate.
No rocky material is either destroyed or formed.
When the plates move and produce a displacement of one transforming limits from side to side, earthquakes occur.
The movement breaks the crust and originates pronounced fractures.
Two components are acting on these faults, vertical and horizontal ones.
In the attached image, we can see that
- B and D might cause plates to diverge or separate
- A and E might cause plates to converge or crush
- F and C might be the forces making plates to slide.
So F and C might be indicating the direction of the stress that causes the lateral fault. The correct option is A.
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