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ESS 202 - EarthquakesCheck website for assigned reading
Press, 18-19
Attend your section
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Class details
• Web page should be working.– http://courses.washington.edu/ess202/
– Linked through myUW
• Now 64/70 enrolled, couple of slots in each lab open.
• Fill out intro questionnaire - it’s the 1st quiz• Remember, with notice, missed quizzes can
be easily made up.• We’re tossing the lowest quiz score
– So missing one quiz is not costly
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Earthquakesyesterday
• M6.3 in New Guinea
• No damage or injuries reported
• No tsunami expected
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• M4.3 in California– A modest
earthquake from an anonymous fault struck in the middle of nowhere on Monday morning.
– said Boatwright, “It's not worth a field trip. It will remain unknown. It was too small.”
– Mercury News@@
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Plate tectonics
• Provides driving force for earthquakes– and volcanoes
• Basics of plate tectonics– Essential Earth structure– How and why the Earth is convecting– Maps of the moving plates– Three types of plate boundaries
• implications for faults, volcanoes
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Get comfortable with Large Numbers
• Million = 1,000,000 = 10*10*10*10*10*10=106 =1000*1000– Example: number of people in medium-large city
• Billion = 1,000,000,000 = 109 =1000*1000*1000– Example: number of people on Earth (6 billion)
• Trillion= 1,000,000,000,000=1012 =1000 billions– Example: $ize of American economy
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Discrepancy - Age of Earth vs Age of Ocean Floor
• Age of universe about 15 billion years– 15 * 1000 * 1,000,000 yrs
• Age of Earth about 4.5 billion years• Age of oldest ocean floor 150
million years– only 4% of age of Earth
• Why?
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Seafloor ages
• Ages measured from foraminifera study– Single celled ocean creatures– Retrieved by drilling to bottom of sediments
• Range from new to 150-200 Mya– cms per year created– or 40 km per million years
• Seafloor grows old with time until it sinks back into mantle
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Atlanticseafloor
age
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Age of seafloor. Red young (20 Myr), blue old (150-180 Myr).
Note bands of younger rock in middle of oceans.
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Distance scales - sizes of continents and oceans
• Centimeter ~ 0.4 in• Meter (m) ~ 3.3 ft.
– 100 centimeters (cm) in 1 meter
• Kilometer (km) = 1000 m– 1 km = 0.6 mile
• Continent typically several thousands of km across– North America is about 4000 km across– Atlantic Ocean about 8000 km wide– Pacific Ocean about 15,000 km wide
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Today’s lecture: plate
tectonics• 0. What are the tectonic plates?• 1. Reason for plate tectonics, why does it occur?
• 2. Evidence for plate tectonics– also history of a supercontinent
• 3. Three types of plate boundaries
• 4. Types of faults, relation to plate boundaries
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0. What are “plates”?
• The Earth is layered.• crust - rocky (silicate (SiO4) + light elements(K, Al))
• mantle - rocky (silicate with more Fe and Mg)• core - 90% iron
•molten outer core & solid inner core
• Tectonic plates are pieces of the chilled, rigid outermost ~100 km of the Earth (lithosphere).• like ice on surface of lake, skin on pudding
• Plate interiors are rigid - most deformation occurs at plate margins.
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Formation of Earth’s iron core
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In process of differentiation iron sank to center, lighter material floatedupward to form crust.
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1. Reason for plate tectonics - mantle convection
• Heat a liquid from below, cool it on top– Hotter material is less dense
• because rapidly moving atoms occupy more space
– Cooler material is more dense
• So the warm light liquid on the bottom rises and the cool dense liquid on top sinks
• The liquid continually overturns, like a pot on a stove
• Convection tends to (tries to) homogenize temperatures
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Convection in action
• Water on stoveTectonic plates on mantle
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Convection in Earth’s mantle from Scientific American article by M. Wysession, March ‘95
Question: is Earth’s mantle a fluid?
Answer: not on short time scales, yes on long time scales
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Classification ofEarth’s Layers
• Composition– crust - silicate + lighter elements•oceanic •continental
– mantle - silicate
– core - 90% iron•fluid outer core•solid inner core
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Two Classification Systems of
Earth’s Layered Structure•Composition
–crust•oceanic •continental
–mantle }
–core•fluid outer core
•solid inner core
• Strength – lithosphere
•outermost rigid layer
– asthenosphere•weak layer below lithosphere
– mesosphere•lower strong layer
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Continent
Mesosphere
Ocean
Strong layer (lithosphere) slides over weaker layer (asthenosphere)
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Reasons for Plate Tectonics
• Strong lithosphere slides over weaker asthenosphere as part of convection of Earth’s mantle
• Overall driving process is release of Earth’s heat to space
• Force comes from convection– hot rock is less dense and rises, displacing cooled, denser surface rock which sinks down into mantle
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Basics of Plate Tectonics
• There are about 15 major plates.
• Their boundaries are the sites of earthquakes and volcanoes. Why?
• Three types of plate boundaries– convergent -> subduction -> destruction of plate
– divergent -> sea-floor spreading -> creation of plate
– transform -> transform faulting -> conservation of plate
(oceanic(oceanic plate) plate)
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Key points• Tectonic plates move 1 to 17 cm/year
– This is about 10 to 170 km (6 to 100 miles) per million years
• The mantle is moving at slightly lower velocities
• It takes about 100-200 million years for the mantle to overturn
• The outer core is a liquid, and it is also convecting, but much faster, – creating Earth’s magnetic field
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Plates move: Hot and buoyant at ridgeCold and sinking when older
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Two modes of convection: plates and plumes
Davies (1993)
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3-D numerical simulationsred - warmer temps blue - cooler
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Plates are not Plates are not continentscontinents
• Plate margins need not coincide with continental margins– Examples: – 1. East coast of US is not plate boundary. North American plate includes continent of North America and part of Atlantic Ocean.
– 2. West part of California on Pacific plate.
– thus many plates are both continental and oceanic
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More points
• The boundaries between plates are faults
• Earthquakes are essentially the plates moving past each other jerkily
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Map of major plates. Many have continent in the middle, ocean on the edges.
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Plate speeds range from 1 to 17 cm/yr
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V - velocity, T - time, D - distanceV = 1 cm/yr = 10-2 m/yr
T = 1 million years = 106 yr D = VT = 10-2 m/yr x 106 yr = 104 m = 10 km
T = 100 million years = 108 yr D = VT = 10-2 m/yr x 108 yr = 106 m = 1000 km
How far does a plate go?
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2. Evidence for Plate Tectonics
• Continents fit together – like jigsaw puzzle
• Old mountain ranges and rock formations continuous
• Fossils of identical animals found on both sides of Atlantic ocean
• Glacial deposits indicate continents were farther south and next to each other
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Continents fit and rock
formations match if Atlantic Ocean is closed
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Matching fossils on opposite sides of Atlantic Ocean
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Mesosaurus, extinct reptile found only in Africa and South America
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Evidence from Glaciation
• Deposits left by glaciers on S. America, Africa, Australia, India– indicate these continents were farther south, nearer to South Pole
• Striations (grooves or scratches) in rock show ice flow direction– indicate ice flowed away from present coastlines
– imply present-day coastline was interior of supercontinent
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Glacial striations
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Glacial striations
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A brief history of plate tectonics• 1660 - Francis Bacon,
and probably many others, noticed similarity in coastlines, no idea what it meant– Some say he wrote
Shakespeare’s plays
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Then …
• 1912 Alfred Wegener noticed coastal fit and fossil and rock similarities, but very few others believed his theory of continental drift– no convection, solid rock can’t flow
• 1960’s magnetic stripes, seafloor dredging and earthquake distributions convince scientific community
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Observations Explained by Plate
Tectonics•Relatively young age of the ocean floor–Why?
•Earthquakes: locations and types
•Volcanism: locations and types•Locations of important minerals and energy resources (oil)
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Observations Explained by Plate
Tectonics, cont.•Many aspects of biological evolution - diversity vs. similarity of species
•About 200 Myr ago continents were joined and many species similar (dinosaurs found on most continents)
•After Pangea and Gondwana started to split diversity of species greatly increased due to geographical separation of habitats and niches
•Magnetic stripes on ocean floor
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Earth’s magnetic field - has dipole form
Iron filings in magnetic field of bar magnet
magneticfield lines
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Earth’s magnetic field
• Magnetic field provided key clue to plate tectonics
• Magnetic field has dipole form– like magnet with north and south poles
• Field reverses at random intervals– ranging from 0.5 Myr to 30 Myr– so compasses and magnetic directions in
rocks would point toward south pole
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Explanation of magnetic “stripes”
• Bands form successively as – plates spread apart– magma wells up to
form new seafloor • which cools and records
normal or reversed magnetic field existing at that time
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Magnetic “stripes” found on Mid-Atlantic ridge
• Colored bands indicate normal magnetic polarity
• No color indicates reversed polarity
• Symmetric pattern was puzzling to geologists
• Caused by spreading ridges and reversing magnetic field
• Stripes later found in all oceans, give age
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Atlanticseafloor
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Plate reconstructions
• Can trace plate motions well for last 200 million years– Since we have oceanic plates up to about
that age to reconstruct motions
• Motions less well-known 200-600 Mya– No oceanic plates left around to help
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Supercontinents
• Pangaea existed ~200 Mya– All major continents, N. America near equator– Started to rift apart ~175 Mya, dinosaur time
• Gondwana is name for supercontinent at about 550 Mya– S. America, Africa, India, Antarctica, Australia– Near South Pole– Re-arranged about 300-200 Mya => Pangaea
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Super-continent Gondwana
• About 550 Myr ago the following continents were joined together and situated near the South Pole– South America– Africa– India– Antarctica– Australia
• They started to rift apart ~175 Myr ago.
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Gondwanaland - 530 My ago
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Pangaea (“all lands”)
• For a shorter time (~350 - 175 Myr) Gondwana was attached to the Northern continents of– North America (Laurentia)– Europe– Asia– Greenland
• N. America was situated on the equator– Dinosaurs roamed the Earth
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Pangaea = Gondwana + Laurasia
Closure of the Tethys Sea & collision of India with Asia built the HimalayansClosure of the Tethys Sea & collision of India with Asia built the Himalayans
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Pangaea = Gondwana + Laurasia
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The breakup
ofPangaea
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Other SupercontinentsOther Supercontinents
• Rodinia formed at 1.3 - 1.0 Gyr and fragmented at 750 - 600 Myr– included most of continents in different
configuration than Pangaea
• There were probably earlier supercontinents
• Supercontinent “Wilson cycle” of ~500 Mya?
• Theory - continents collide, insulate mantle underneath, then separate as mantle gets hot and upwells
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Wilson cycle
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In 50 million more years
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3. Plate boundaries (edges)• A plate can shrink, grow, or stay the
same• Three types of boundaries
– Convergent - plates move towards each other
• Usually, one plate gets pushed under into the mantle (area shrinks) while the other slides over
– Divergent - plates move apart• Asthenosphere (hot mantle material) rises to fill
the space between the separating plates
– Transform - plates slide past each other• Both plates stay on surface and move sideways
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Convergent boundaries
• Subduction zones - common, long-lived– oceanic plate over oceanic plate or– continental plate over oceanic plate
• Collision zones– occur when continental crust collides, leading to mountain building because•continental crust does not subduct - It contains a larger proportion of light elements than oceanic crust. Thus, it is not dense enough to subduct.
explosive volcanism!}
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Oceanic plate over oceanic plate
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Subduction
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Continental plate over oceanic plate
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Site of largest earthquakesSite of largest earthquakes
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SouthAmerica
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Subduction Zones
•Thrust (reverse) faulting•Numerous and large earthquakes
•Occur from 0 to 700 km depth–outline sinking lithospheric slab
–called Benioff zone, Wadati-Benioff zone
•Examples: Japan, S. America, Latin America, Washington-Oregon
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• Continent - continent collision– leads to mountain building because– continental crust does not subduct
• it contains a larger proportion of light elements than oceanic crust. Thus, it is not dense enough to subduct.
Site of large earthquakesSite of large earthquakes
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Himalayas
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Divergent boundaries
• Most frequently: mid-ocean ridges– See figure– Examples: mid-Atlantic ridge, many ridges
under Pacific and Indian oceans
• Less frequently: rift valleys on land– See figure– Will turn into mid-ocean ridges once old
land has spread far enough apart
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Mid-ocean ridge
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Rift valley
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New spreading center in
Afar
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Plates are created
here,thereforedestroyed elsewhere
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Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading Centers
•Plates move apart, new plate created
•Normal faulting•Fewer and smaller earthquakes
•At shallow depths (0-5 km)•Far from civilization, little damage–except in Iceland
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Transform boundaries
• One plate slides sideways past another plate - see figure– Can be ocean-ocean contact
– Or continent-continent contact• Like San Andreas fault
• Least common boundary, usually vertical
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Transform Boundaries
• Strike-slip faulting
• Intermediate size and number of quakes
• At shallow depths (0-20 km)
• Example: San Andreas Fault
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Transform boundary
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Most volcanoes occur near plate boundaries
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Volcanism at Plate Boundaries
• Mid-Ocean Ridges– most abundant, mild (not explosive)
– located at spreading ridge
• Subduction Zones– fairly abundant, explosive – located inland from trench, 120 km above top of subducting slab
• Transform Faults– rare, somewhat explosive
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Water released from subducting slab at ~120 km depth, melts overlying rock. Melt pools in magma chambers and erupts to surface.
How subduction generates volcanoes
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How continental crust grows: 1. Lava and magma chambers2. Modified oceanic crust or fragments of continental crust are accreted to continental crust.
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Plumes from core-mantle boundary create “hotspots”
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Volcanism in Plate
Interiors• Produced by hot spots, narrow plumes of rising, hot, partially-molten rock– originate from deep in mantle, probably core-mantle boundary
– don’t move much wrt each other or mantle
• Volcanoes form long chains as plate moves over hot spot– as in Hawaiian Islands– another example: Yellowstone
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Different tectonic settings of volcanism - rifting, convergence, hotspot
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4. Types of Faults and Relation to Plate
Tectonics• Earthquakes occur at all plate boundaries, with differing intensity
• From details of earthquake wave, can determine– orientation of the fault plane– direction of slip
• Different types and numbers of earthquakes occur at the three different types of boundaries
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Most, not all, seismicity occurs near plate boundaries
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Quakes occur at all plate boundaries
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Types of Earthquakes/Faulting
• Thrust (reverse)• Normal• Strike-slip
– Right-lateral– Left-lateral
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Faulting at plate boundaries
• Three main types of faults– Normal faults - common at spreading
ridges– Thrust faults - common in subduction
zones– Strike-slip faults - common on transform
zones
• There is also distributed deformation– Folds, stretching, shearing– Occurs smoothly, not seismic
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Thrust fault - convergence
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Convergent zones
• Collision zones– India-Asia
• Subduction zones– Around Pacific Rim– Earthquakes,
volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides
• “Ring of Fire”
– Also by Indonesia
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Thrust faults
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Normal fault - divergence
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Normal fault - divergence
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• Mid-ocean ridges– Atlantic Ocean– Pacific Ocean– Indian Ocean
• Rift zones– Baikal Rift– Basin and Range– East African Rift zone
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To distinguish normalTo distinguish normalfrom thrust faultsfrom thrust faults
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• Imagine a vertical line through the fault. The crust above the intersection of the line with the fault is called the hanging wall, the crust below the intersection is called the footwall.
• If the hanging wall is moving up, the fault is a thrust (reverse) fault.
• If the hanging wall is moving down, the fault is a normal fault.
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Strike-slip fault - Transform
• Less common
• California, Western Edge of Canada
• New Zealand
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Strike-slip fault
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Ways to deform rock
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Type of stress
Rock Response:
ductile
seismic