CK12 Earth Science
Figure 7.15: The two types of dip-slip faults. In normal faults the hanging wall drops down relative to the footwall. In reverse ...
Figure 7.17: The Teton Range in Wyoming rose up along a normal fault. ( 22 ) block that your right foot is on, the fault is know ...
Figure 7.19: The San Andreas is a transform fault separating the Pacific from North Amer- ican Plates. The fault creates a scar ...
the Eurasian plate. Some of the Indian plate was thrust beneath Asia and some of Asia was thrust onto India. Rock also folded, w ...
Figure 7.22: The Andes Mountains have arisen due to the convergence of two lithospheric plates. ( 21 ) Figure 7.23: Where the cr ...
Figure 7.24: In this photo taken in the Basin and Range province, the photographer is standing at Emigrant Pass in the Nopah Ran ...
at the top and the youngest at the bottom. How do you explain how the rocks came to be this way? Describe an anticline and name ...
fault zone A network of related faults. fold A bend in a set of rocks caused by compression. Folds are easiest to see in sedimen ...
Points to Consider Think about stresses in the ocean basins. Where in the ocean basis do you think you would find the features ...
few meters. This description of how earthquakes occur is calledelastic rebound theory (Figure7.25). Figure 7.25: Elastic rebound ...
of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, for example, was offshore, 1.5-3 kilometers (1-2 miles) west of Golden Gate Park. Figure 7 ...
Figure7.27: Earthquakeepicenterscanbeusedtooutlinetheedgesofthelithosphericplates. Most earthquakes occur around the Pacific Oce ...
notorious earthquake fault in North America is the San Andreas Fault that runs through California. The 1,300 kilometer (800 mile ...
Figure 7.30: Damage after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fire ( 26 ) In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck near Sant ...
Figure 7.31: The San Andreas Fault Zone in the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Andreas Fault is seen running through San Francis ...
Cascades volcanoes are active and include Mount Saint Helens, which had a large eruption in1980. MountLassen, MountShasta, and M ...
Figure 7.33: The location of the New Madrid Seismic Zone is well within the North American plate far from the nearest plate boun ...
Seismic waves move outward in all directions away from their source. There are two major types of seismic waves. Body waves trav ...
Figure 7.35: The top figure shows how body waves, including P-waves and S-waves, move through a grid. The bottom figure shows ho ...
energy forms a set of waves. The waves travel through the sea entirely unnoticed since they have low amplitudes and long wavelen ...
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