GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In a strike-slip fault, the movement of blocks along a fault is horizontal. The fault motion of a strike-slip fault is caused by shearing forces.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -A strike slip fault is caused by a build-up of stress that is released when two rocks slide past one another. This stress is known as shearing stress which is a type of stress that is parallel to a particular surface, such as the two blocks of rock in a strike slip fault.