GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In a reverse fault, the block above the fault moves up relative to the block below the fault. This fault motion is caused by compressional forces and results in shortening.

Detailed explanation-2: -Normal faults result from tensional forces when rocks are displaced away from each other. Reverse faults results of compressional forces when rocks are displaced towards each other. Strike-slip or transform faults results from either compressional or extensional forces when rocks slip parallell to each other.

Detailed explanation-3: -In terms of faulting, compressive stress produces reverse faults, tensional stress produces normal faults, and shear stress produces transform faults.

Detailed explanation-4: -Reverse or Thrust Faults: The opposite of a normal fault, a reverse fault forms when the rocks on the “uphill” side of an inclined fault plane rise above the rocks on the other side. Reverse faults often form along convergent plate boundaries.

Detailed explanation-5: -reverse (thrust) fault-a dip-slip fault in which the upper block, above the fault plane, moves up and over the lower block. This type of faulting is common in areas of compression, such as regions where one plate is being subducted under another as in Japan.