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occurs where plates are colliding and one side of the fault is pushed up and over the other.
the plates meet evenly and slide against each other horizontally.
strike-slip faults combined with either a normal fault or a thrust fault. One plate moves sideways, and one moves downward.
occur what plate boundaries pull apart and Earth’s crust is stretched. One side of the fault slips down.
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