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The answer is by convergent plate motion.
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Can a fault also be a plate boundary?
Yes, for example the San Andreas Fault is a plate boundary.
What are three types of motion that occur at plate boundaries?
The interaction areas between tectonic plates are called boundaries. There are three types of boundaries:Transform--where plates essentially grind past each other with no subduction.Convergent--where plates collide. Oceanic plate to oceanic plate convergence will result in the more dense plate subducting under the less dense plate.Divergent--where plates move apart. The major diverging plates are located at the mid-ocean ridge system where melting material from the asthenosphere fills in the separating plate zone, creating new crust.
What plate are related to the San Andreas fault?
pepitos fault
What plates are involved in San Andreas fault?
The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate are involved in the San Andreas fault. The Pacific Plate is moving to the northwest grinding pass the North American Plate.
What fault line is Japan on?
Japan is located near a triple fault line between the Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate (the Japan Trench) and the Philippine plate (the Nankai Trough).
Is a reverse fault often located along a divergent plate boundary or convergent?
A reverse fault is often found at convergent plate boundaries.
What type of fault is most associated with convergent plate boundaries?
The reverse fault.
What are the three types of plate boundaries and what types of faults occur there?
a. Transform:transform boundaries or motion creates strike-slip faults.b. Convergent:convergent boundaries or motion creates reverse faults.c. Divergent:divergent motion creates a normal fault.
What are reverse faults created by?
convergent plate motion
A reverse fault is formed by what type of tectonic plate boundary?
A convergent boundary!
During earthquakes which type of fault results when one plate is compressed up onto another plate?
REVERSE
The himalaya mountains contain many of these faults?
You would find a combination of strike-slip and thrust faults. This is what gives the mountain range the jagged look.
What type of plate boundary causes a reverse fault?
In an ideal world this would be a margin that involves some element of compression, so you're looking at a compressional (orogenic) or subducting margin. Anywhere where the crust is thickened generally involves reverse, also known as thrust, faulting.
Is moving water important to San Andreas fault?
No, the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal).
A rift valley is the reverse of what type of mountain?
A rift valley is the reverse of a fault block mountain. Rift valleys are linear shaped low lands and divergent plate boundaries.
A what fault generally occurs at a convergent boundary?
reverse
What are the 4 different types of faults?
The 4 main types of fault are summarised below:Dip-slip faultsStrike-slip / transcurrent faultsOblique-slip faultsListric faultDip slip faults are those where the relative motion on the fault is broadly vertical. Examples include normal faults where the hanging wall moves down relative to the foot wall. Reverse faults have the opposite sense of motion, with the hangingwall moving up relative to the footwall. Thrust faults are a special type of reverse fault where the dip of the fault plane is at a shallower angle than 45 degrees from the horizontal.Strike slip or transcurrent faults are those where the relative motion on the fault is broadly horizontal. The fault plane in these types of faults is normally near vertical and the sense of motion is described in terms of the relative movement of the rockmass on the far side of the fault plane. If this relative movement is to the left, then it is known as a sinistral fault. If he motion is to the right it is a dextral fault.Oblique slip faults are those have have a significant component of both vertical and horizontal movement. They can be thought of a composite of the dip slip and strike slip faults.Listric faults are characterised by a curved fault plane surface. They usually start of relatively steep and then become more shallow with increased depth and may ultimately become horizontal.Previous Answer:The four different types of faults are normal, reverse, transcurrent (also known as strike-slip), and thrust. Normal faults are so named because movement follows what would be expected from normal effects of gravity--one plate slides downward, pulled by gravity, and the other plate forms a cliff face. The reverse fault, then, is the opposite of a normal fault--one plate moves against gravity and slides over the other. Transcurrent faults feature horizontal movement rather than up/down movement; plates slide along each other, resulting in offset roads and such. Finally, thrust faults are similar to reverse faults--one plate moves over the other--but the angles of movement for thrust faults are generally less steep, and thrust faults are more commonly associated with geographical features such as mountain ranges.
