GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Slip is the distance rocks move along a fault. Slip can be up or down the fault plane. Slip is relative, because there is usually no way to know whether both sides moved or only one. Faults lie at an angle to the horizontal surface of the Earth.

Detailed explanation-2: -Faults. fault-a break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another; a form of brittle strain. Stress on rock can cause rock to break. Breaks in rock along which there is no movement of the surrounding rock is called a fracture. A break along which the surrounding rock moves is called a fault.

Detailed explanation-3: -When rocks break in response to stress, the resulting break is called a fracture. If rocks on one side of the break shift relative to rocks on the other side, then the fracture is a fault.

Detailed explanation-4: -A fault is a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock. Faults allow the blocks to move relative to each other. This movement may occur rapidly, in the form of an earthquake-or may occur slowly, in the form of creep.

Detailed explanation-5: -fault, in geology, a planar or gently curved fracture in the rocks of Earth’s crust, where compressional or tensional forces cause relative displacement of the rocks on the opposite sides of the fracture.