Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Anderson's Theory of Faulting


Assuming that there is no shear stress at the Earth's surface (shear stress cannot occur in fluids), one of the principal stress components must be vertical and thus the other two must be horizontal.

σv = σ1 normal fault
σv = σ2 reverse fault
σv = σ3 strike-slip fault


Anderson's Theory of Faulting



Normal, Reverse, and Strike-Slip Faults


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6 comments:

  1. Rafaz03 January, 2017 15:11

    Thank you Lauren!... very nice pics

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  2. Unknown02 April, 2019 08:47

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  3. Unknown27 June, 2019 12:23

    For strike slip sigma 2 should be vertical not sigma 3.....in picture also sigma 2 is shown to be vertical.... But above you have shown sigma 3 to be vertical for strike slip

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  4. zvika greenberg27 November, 2019 05:37

    Hi Lauren - it seems that you switched between sigma 2 in reverse fault and it should be strike slip fault.

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  5. Unknown15 August, 2020 03:45

    Sigma 2 vertical should be related to strike-slip fault.

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  6. Mayank06 August, 2023 00:51

    what does P and T refers here

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