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11.1 What do deformed rocks look like?
- Describing broken rocks - faults
- Footwall: the rock below the fault plane
- Hanging wall: the segment of rock above the fault plane
- Dip-slip: motion along a fracture that is primarily vertical displacement along the dip-plane surface
- Strike-slip: motion along a fault that results in rock displacement in a compass direction
- Oblique-slip fault: a combination of dip- and strike-slip displacements