GEO ch 7

• Tensional forces
• Compressive forces
• Shearing forces

divergent boundaries

describe the orientation of rock layer exposed at an outcrop

strike

amount of tilting

diagrams showing the features that would be visible if verticle slices were made through part of the crust

faults

fault on which there has been relative movment of blocks of rock up or down the dip of the fault plane

normal fault

bowlshaped depression of rock layers

broad circular upward bulge of rock