Exam 7: Deformation: Modification of Rocks by Folding and Fracturing

What is the scale on a map where 1 centimeter represents 1 kilometer?

Which of the following map scales shows the largest area?

Reverse faults form in response to ______ forces.

What sort of fault type is likely to form where shear forces combine with compressive or tensional forces?

What determines whether a rock deforms in a brittle fashion versus a ductile fashion?

Which of the following statements is false?

A fault plane strikes north-south and dips steeply to the west.Geologic observations indicate that most of the fault movement was dip-slip and that Mesozoic rocks occur east of the fault and Paleozoic rocks occur west of the fault.What type of fault is this?

Older rocks crop out in the core of which of the structures listed below? I.anticline II.syncline III.dome IV.basin

Development of mylonitic textures occurs with what other geologic process?

Oil is commonly trapped in

When two blocks on either side of a fracture a ______ will turn into a _______.

What types of forces dominate at convergent plate margins?

On a map with a 1:2400 scale,what does 1 centimeter represent on the map?

The world's largest earthquakes occur along

The line formed by the intersection of an inclined sedimentary layer and a horizontal plane is called the

In an anticline,

If erosion stripped the top off a dome,one would find

What is a thrust fault?

Listric faults are a type of ______ fault.

The surface that divides a fold into two symmetrical halves is called the