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    Activity 3 Fault Block Paper Model

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    This document provides instructions for building a 3D fault block model to represent three types of faults: normal faults, reverse faults, and transform faults. Students are directed to cut out and assemble a box model with labeled rock layers. They then simulate the different faults by moving sections of the model and drawing the resulting cross sections. Questions assess features of each fault, including the direction of movement, continuity of rock layers, and effects on surface structures.

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    Activity 3 Fault Block Paper Model

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    This document provides instructions for building a 3D fault block model to represent three types of faults: normal faults, reverse faults, and transform faults. Students are directed to cut out and assemble a box model with labeled rock layers. They then simulate the different faults by moving sections of the model and drawing the resulting cross sections. Questions assess features of each fault, including the direction of movement, continuity of rock layers, and effects on surface structures.

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    This document provides instructions for building a 3D fault block model to represent three types of faults: normal faults, reverse faults, and transform faults. Students are directed to cut out and assemble a box model with labeled rock layers. They then simulate the different faults by moving sections of the model and drawing the resulting cross sections. Questions assess features of each fault, including the direction of movement, continuity of rock layers, and effects on surface structures.

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    Activity 3 Fault Block Paper Model

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    This document provides instructions for building a 3D fault block model to represent three types of faults: normal faults, reverse faults, and transform faults. Students are directed to cut out and assemble a box model with labeled rock layers. They then simulate the different faults by moving sections of the model and drawing the resulting cross sections. Questions assess features of each fault, including the direction of movement, continuity of rock layers, and effects on surface structures.

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    Fault Block Paper Model Name ____________________

    Date ______________Per___

    Part 1: Follow the directions for making your Fault Block Model:
    a. Color the fault model according to the color key.
    b. Cut out the fault model and fold each side down to form a box with the drawn features on
    top. (Don not cut off the tabs.)
    c. Tape the corners together. This box is a three dimensional model of the top layers of the
    Earth's crust.
    d. The dashed lines on your model represent a fault. Carefully cut along the dashed lines. You
    will end up with two pieces.

    Part 2: Modeling a normal fault


    a. Locate points A and B on your model. Move point B so that it is next to Point A. Observe
    your model from the side (its cross-section).
    b. Draw the normal fault as represented by the model you have just constructed.
    Drawing of normal fault:

    c. Answer the following questions:


    1. Which way did point B move relative to point A?

    2. What happened to rock layers X, Y and Z?

    3. Are the rock layers still continuous?

    4. What likely happened to the river? the road? the railroad tracks?

    5. Is this type of fault caused by tension, compression or shearing?

    Part 3: Modeling a reverse (thrust) fault


    a. Locate points C and D on your model. Move Point C next to point D. Observe the cross-
    section of your model.
    b. Draw the reverse (thrust) fault as represented by the model you have just constructed.
    Drawing of reverse (thrust) fault:
    c. Answer the following questions:
    1. Which way did point D move relative to point C?

    2. What happened to rock layers X, Y and Z?

    3. Are the rock layers still continuous?

    4. What likely happened to the river? The road? The railroad tracks?

    5. Is this type of fault caused by tension, compression or shearing?

    Part 4: Modeling a transform (strike-slip fault)

    a. Locate points F and G on your model. Move the pieces of the model so that point F is next
    to point G.
    b. Draw an overhead view of the surface as it looks after movement along the fault.
    Drawing of transform (strike-slip) fault:

    c. Answer the following questions:


    1. If you were standing at point F and looking across the fault, which way did the block on
    the opposite side move?

    2. What happened to rock layers X, Y, and Z?

    3. Are the rock layers still continuous?

    4. What likely happened to the river? The road? The railroad tracks?

    5. If the scale used in this model is 1 mm = 2 m, how many meters did the earth move
    when the strike-slip fault caused point F to move alongside point G? (Note that this
    scale would make an unlikely size for the railroad track!) If there were a sudden
    horizontal shift of this magnitude it would be about five times the shift that occurred in
    the 1906 San Andreas Fault as a result of the San Francisco earthquake.

    6. Is this type of fault caused by tension, compression or shearing?


    Fault Block Model Diagram

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