GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The fault motion of a strike-slip fault is caused by shearing forces. Other names: transcurrent fault, lateral fault, tear fault or wrench fault. Examples: San Andreas Fault, California; Anatolian Fault, Turkey.

Detailed explanation-2: -Strike-slip faults are vertical (or nearly vertical) fractures where the blocks have mostly moved horizontally. The fault motion of a strike-slip fault is caused by shearing forces. If the block on the far side of the fault moves to the left, as shown in this animation, the fault is called left-lateral.

Detailed explanation-3: -strike-slip fault, also called transcurrent fault, wrench fault, or lateral fault, in geology, a fracture in the rocks of Earth’s crust in which the rock masses slip past one another parallel to the strike, the intersection of a rock surface with the surface or another horizontal plane.

Detailed explanation-4: -A strike-slip fault is formed by shear stress, which occurs whenever two blocks of rock slide past one another. The hanging wall does not lie above or below the footwall at a strike-slip fault. These types of faults occur along boundaries known as transform boundaries.

Detailed explanation-5: -Strike-slip faults are distinct from the previous two because they don’t involve vertical motion. They form via shear stress.