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Folding and Faulting

Rawls

This puzzle uses words from Chapter 15 in the Geology Book.

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Across
4.a fold in which the layered rock usually dips toward the axis
5.a fold in which the hinge line is not horizontal
6.a fold with gently dipping limbs.
7.the compass direction of a line formed by the intersection of an incline plane with a horizontal plane
9.the hanging wall block has moved upward relative to the footwall block
12.fracture at stresses higher than it's elastic limit
14.underlying surface of a inclined fault plane.
15.A fault where the movement is predominantly horizontal and parrallel to the strike
17.overlying surface in a dip-slip faults
18.stress due to forces that tend to cause movement or strain paralle to the direction of the forces
Down
1.line about which a fold appears to be hinged.
2.capable of being molded and bent under stress
3.a falut with both strike-slip and dip-slip components
4.a force acting on a body or rock unit. Force per unit area within a body
7.a structure in which the beds dip toward a central point.
8.the hanging wall block has moved downward relative to the footwall block.
10.a structure in which beds dip away from a central point
11.a reverse fault in which the dip of the fault plane is at a low angle.
13.a map representing the geology of a given area.
16.portion of a fold shared by an anticline and a syncline

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