What type of fault expect to reverse or strike-slip faults

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Discussion Post: Tectonics, Earthquakes and Volcanism

The image below can also be found in your textbook. This image is not an interpretation but an actual picture of the Red Sea. This area of the world is the East African Rift Zone separating Saudi Arabia and Africa. The linear pattern is due to extensional tectonics. In other words, Africa and Saudi Arabia are moving away from each other creating tensional forces that create normal faults. The landscape features found in the area are Rift Valleys.

Pretend we are on location at the East African Rift Valley. We would find Normal Faults where one side of the fault shows a rock layer dropped relative to the other layer. We would find linear mountains that formed from the valley dropping out between the normal faults. The microscale evidence we collect helps to add up to the macroscale interpretation of a divergent boundary due to tensional forces creating normal faults and rift valleys.

For your Discussion, research some area of the world's landscape and tectonics. Put together some ideas as to why the landscape has ended up with the pattern that you observe. Do you think it might be from a convergent, divergent, or transform boundary? Do you think the forces that formed the landscape are compressional, tensional, or shearing? What type of fault would you expect to find, reverse, normal, or strike-slip faults?

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