Reverse faulting is the dip-slip motion in which the hanging wall block above an inclined fault plane is pushed upward and over the footwall block as the crust shortens under horizontal compression. A thrust fault is a shallow-dipping reverse fault carrying especially large horizontal displacement, and reverse and thrust faulting together are the mechanism that builds compressional mountain belts and generates the great subduction-zone earthquakes along convergent plate margins such as the Himalaya and the Pacific Ring of Fire.
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Timescale (category) Timescale (category) Timescale (category) Timescale (category) Process Type TimescaleAn individual rupture is seconds; the fault system itself develops over thousands to millions of years. 1 First Proposed Year Connections
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1. Reverse Faulting (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation- Timescale (category): Seconds
- Timescale (category): Years
- Timescale (category): Thousands of Years
- Timescale (category): Millions of Years
- Process Type: Tectonic
- Timescale: An individual rupture is seconds; the fault system itself develops over thousands to millions of years.
- First Proposed Year: 1905
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