Unit 34: Faults, Folds, and Landscapes

A fault in which older rock on the hanging wall is in contact with younger rock on the foot wall is a:

reverse fault

Which type of fault is most common in the Basin and Range of western North America and the Rift Valley of East Africa?

normal fault

The collision of the Indian plate with the Eurasian plate created the Himalayas, accompanied by many faults of this type:

thrust fault

The angle that a ridge makes relative to a horizontal plane that is measured as degrees east or west of north is termed:

strike

What kind of plate boundary may be present where there is a large strike-slip fault?

Transform plate boundary