Question

What type of stress is placed on a normal fault? Reverse fault? Strike-slip fault?

The teacher told me they are asking for a more specific answer. "Your lesson talked about specific types of stress those are the answers I am looking for. Please go back through your lesson and list the right stress to the right faults. Thanks."

My first answer was.

In a strike-slip fault, the intermediate stress is vertical. The biggest and smallest stresses are horizontal. The shear break or fracture (fault) makes a point of under 45 degrees with the major principal pressure bearing, for this situation again the level. There is no vertical movement.

Answer 1

In strike-slip faulting, the intermediate stress is vertical. The largest and smallest stresses are horizontal. The shear fracture (fault) makes an angle of less than 45 degrees with the major (most compressive) principalstress direction, in this case again the horizontal. There is no vertical movement. ) Hope this helps