fault, an extended break in a body of rock, marked by the relative displacement and discontinuity of strata on either side of a particular surface, normal fault, a type of geological fault where the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall due to extensional forces, reverse fault, a fault where the blocks of rock move vertically along the dip of the fault plane., Strike-slip faults, a vertical fracture in the Earth's crust where blocks of rock move past each other horizontally., Oblique-slip faults, a fault that combines both vertical and horizontal movement, making it a mix of a dip-slip fault and a strike-slip fault..

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