GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Strike slip systems are relatively narrow and subvertical wrench zones along which two adjacent blocks move sideways, horizontally, parallel to the strike of the fault zone. For example, they are produced at transform plate boundaries where plates horizontally slide past one another.

Detailed explanation-2: -Strike-slip faults are vertical (or nearly vertical) fractures where the blocks have mostly moved horizontally. If the block opposite an observer looking across the fault moves to the right, the slip style is termed right-lateral; if the block moves to the left, the motion is termed left-lateral.

Detailed explanation-3: -• strike is the orientation of the line where the fault plane. intersects the horizontal plane. • dip is the orientation of the line on the fault plane that is perpendicular to strike. It makes the steepest angle with respect to the horizontal (a ball would roll down it).

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -What is the relative movement along a strike-slip fault? Both blocks of rock move horizontally past each other. The dominant displacement is parallel to the strike of the fault.