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What type of fault is characterized by the hanging wall moving down in respect to the footwall?
Normal fault
Which type of fault is associated with the smallest (least compressive) stress being vertical?
Reverse fault
What is the term used for a low angle reverse fault?
Thrust fault
Which type of fault is characterized by horizontal movement?
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What type of structure results in a local steepening in dip of the strata?
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In which type of fault is the movement along the dip of the fault?
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What type of faulting involves two blocks moving either left or right relative to each other?
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What kind of structure is associated with crustal shear and also known as wrench faults?
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What is the term used to describe a series of down-arched strata with limbs dipping inwards in opposite directions towards the fold axis?
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Which geologic force creates stress on the crust, tending to change its size and shape?
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What is the imaginary line with compass direction constructed on the surface of a sedimentary bed or fault in which points on that line are of equal elevation called?
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In geology, what does 'dip' refer to?
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