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Faults are breaks in the Earth's crust where rocks move
past one another in some way. Typically faults are
associated with earthquakes. We've called faults 'boundaries' in class.
We've talked about divergent, convergent, and transform
boundaries, but there are 2 types of common faults.
The first is a dip slip and the second kind is a strike slip.
Dip slips are in the top of the picture and this occurs when
2 pieces of land move vertically. This leaves one of the pieces
higher than the other. A strike slip occurs when 2 pieces
of land move horizontally. Most of you would call this a
transform boundary because the pieces of land move from side to side.
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