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What is a fault?
Faults are places
where rocks have fractured (created )
and been moved.
•The pressure caused by tectonic plates builds up
over time and eventually causes breaks in the crust of
the earth. This
is where rocks grind past each other. When this happens,
earthquakes can happen.
There are three major types of faults :
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Copyright
 1997 Linda Ferguson and Eva LaMar
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