A fault whose slip vector lies along the dip line () is a dip-slip fault: a normal fault when the hanging wall has moved down (), a reverse fault when it has moved up (). A thrust fault is a reverse fault that dips or less. A fault whose slip is parallel to its strike ( or ) is a strike-slip fault; such faults are usually near vertical. A strike-slip fault is dextral (right-lateral) when an observer standing on one side sees the other side moved to the right, sinistral (left-lateral) when to the left. A fault whose slip has both a strike-slip and a dip-slip component is an oblique-slip fault; in practice a fault is named after its larger component, so that a rake near is called normal.
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什么是 Normal, reverse, thrust, strike-slip and oblique-slip faults?
又称: normal fault · reverse fault · thrust fault · strike-slip fault · dextral · sinistral · oblique-slip fault