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Understanding Geological Faults by vero is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses different types of faults including normal faults, reverse faults, thrust faults, strike-slip faults, and horsts and grabens. Evidence of faults includes fault planes, offsets in rock layers, repetition of the same rock layers, missing rock layers, and surface features like linear valleys or mountain ridges. Normal faults occur when the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall during extension. Reverse and thrust faults occur during compression when the hanging wall moves up
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- vero
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