Rotate both movies to understand how this fault has offset the vertical layers.  Then answer the questions below, one at a time.

Is this fault dip-slip, strike-slip, or oblique?  Which way are the layers on the opposite side of the fault offset?  Can you figure out why this type of strike-slip fault is called a right-lateral fault?


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Rotate block  Offset fault

Continue to the next page to examine different types of faults.

Faults - Right Lateral