For the sake of clearness we have described oscillations, foldings,
and fractures of the crust as separate processes, each giving rise to
its own peculiar surface features, but in nature earth movements are
by no means so simple,--they are often implicated with one another:
folds pass into faults; in a deformed region certain rocks have bent,
while others under the same strain, but under different conditions of
plasticity and load, have broken; folded mountains have been worn to
their roots, and the peneplains to which they have been denuded have
been upwarped to mountain height and afterwards dissected,--as in the
case of the Allegheny ridges, the southern Carpathians, and other
ranges,--or, as in the case of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, have been
broken and uplifted as mountains of fracture.
Draw the following diagrams, being careful to show the direction
in which the faulted blocks have moved, by the position of the two
parts of some well-defined layer of limestone, sandstone, or
shale, which occurs on each side of the fault plane, as in Figure
184.
1. A normal fault with a hade of 15°, the original fault
scarp remaining.
2. A normal fault with a hade of 50°, the original fault
scarp worn away, showing cliffs caused by harder strata on the
downthrow side.
3. A thrust fault with a hade of 30°, showing cliffs due to
harder strata outcropping on the downthrow.
4. A thrust fault with a hade of 80°, with surface
baseleveled.
5. In a region of normal faults a coal mine is being worked along
the seam of coal _AB_ (Fig. 193). At _B_ it is found broken by a fault
f which hades toward _A_. To find the seam again, should you advise
tunneling up or down from _B_?
[Illustration: Fig. 193]
6. In a vertical shaft of a coal mine the same bed of coal is
pierced twice at different levels because of a fault. Draw a
diagram to show whether the fault is normal or a thrust.
[Illustration: Fig. 194. Ridges to be explained by Faulting]
7. Copy the diagram in Figure 194, showing how the two ridges may
be accounted for by a single resistant stratum dislocated by a
fault. Is the fault a _strike fault_, i.e. one running parallel with
the strike of the strata, or a _dip fault_, one running parallel
with the direction of the dip?
[Illustration: Fig. 195. Earth Block of Tilted Strata, with
Included Seam of Coal _cc_]
8. Draw a diagram of the block in Figure 195 as it would appear if
dislocated along the plane _efg_ by a normal fault whose throw equals
one fourth the height of the block. Is the fault a strike or a dip
fault? Draw a second diagram showing the same block after denudation
has worn it down below the center of the upthrown side. Note that the
outcrop of the coal seam is now deceptively repeated. This exercise
may be done in blocks of wood instead of drawings.
[Illustration: Fig. 196. _A_ and _B_. Repeated Outcrops of Same
Strata]
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