Faults
This is the fault with the footwall moving up and the hanging wall moving down.
What is a normal fault?
This is the boundary that has two plates move toward each other.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
This stress thins the plate
What is tension stress?
This fault stretches from Cape Mendocino to Salton Sea.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
This is any process that moves Earth's surface to higher elevation.
What is uplift?
This fault has the two plates moving toward each other.
What is a reverse fault?
At this boundary two plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This stress makes the plates thicker.
What is compression stress?
_______ and ________ are both active volcanoes in the Cascade Range.
Mt. Shasta and Lassen Peak
This is a break or bend in a rock.
What is fracture?
This fault moves horizontally past each other.
What is a strke-slip fault?
This plate boundary has two plates move horizontally past each other in opposite directions.
What is a transform plate boundary?
With this stress rocks are neither formed or recycled.
What is shear stress?
This plate moves northwest relative to the North American plate.
What is the Pacific Plate?
This is a fracture on one side compared to the fracture on the other side.
What is a fault?
This fault is not slanted, but vertical.
What is a strike slip fault?
At a _________, Transverse Ranges and the Coastal Ranges.
Transform plate boundary
At an ocean-to-ocean plate boundary this stress makes the older, colder, denser plate subduct underneath the other one to form an ocean trench.
What is compression stress.
The _________ and _________ plates subduct underneath the North American Plate to form the Cascade Range.
Gorda and Juan de Fuca
This is the process in which one plate is forced underneath another one into the mantle.
What is subduction?
The ______________ fault on California is the most studied fault in the world.
San Andreas
At ocean-to-continent plate boundaries this type of boundary forms volcanoes on the continental plate.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
The LA basin and the Venture basin were created by this type of stress.
What is shear stress?
This range is formed at a divergent plate boundary.
What is the Panamint Range?
Tension stresses form normal faults, so the hanging wall slips down to form this. This eventually fills with water.
What is a Rift Valley?