Folds and Faults
Channel: Earth Rocks!
Date: 2019-02-27

For an introductory college-level earth sciences class: a review folds and faults found in Earth's crust: their causes, classification, and importance. Also reviews the various stresses that lead to the variety of deformation types. Includes definitions and modeling of reverse faults, normal faults, and strike-slip faults; anticlines, synclines, domes, and basins; and plastic, elastic, and brittle deformation.

**This video comes about 1/3 of the way through the semester, so there may be terms with which the audience is unfamiliar. For a full playlist, refer to the Geology playlist on the Earth Rocks! YouTube Channel.

Content within this video is based on information available in any standard introductory college geology textbook, such as Essentials of Geology -- Tarbuck and Lutgens -- Pearson Publishing.

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