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Faults and Folds Activity

Name: _______________________________St. # ______

1. Label the Hanging wall and Footwall below.


[Remember: A person can walk up a footwall and hang off
a hanging wall.]

What type of stress caused this fault?


2. Obtain two blocks from the white tray. Hold
them above the desk, and with one hand on the
hanging wall and one hand on the footwall, have one
group member apply just enough pressure so the
blocks stay together. Then, carefully increase the
pressure on the hanging wall. What happens?
Dont let it slide all the way off the footwall! Lay
both blocks on their sides and draw the way they
look. Color your diagram and label the hanging
wall and the footwall in your drawing.

Compression / Tension / Shear


What happened to the hanging wall in relation to the
footwall?
It moved up / It moved down
What kind of Fault is this? (Hint: Did the hanging
wall act like it normally would according to the laws
of gravity?)
Normal / Reverse / Strike Slip

What type of stress caused this fault?


Compression / Tension / Shear
What happened to the hanging wall in relation to the
footwall?

4. Place the bottom of both blocks on the table.


Slowly move them in opposite directions (one hand
moves towards your body, one hand moves away
from your body). Stop while the blocks are still
touching and draw the way they look from above.
Color your diagram.

It moved up / It moved down


What kind of Fault is this? (Hint: Did the hanging
wall act like it normally would according to the laws
of gravity?)
Normal / Reverse / Strike Slip
3. Again, have one group member hold both blocks
up in the air by squeezing them gently together.
Slowly and carefully decrease the pressure on the
hanging wall. What happens? Dont let it slide all
the way off the footwall! Lay both blocks on their
sides and draw the way they look. Color your
diagram and label the hanging wall and the footwall
in your drawing. (do this at the top of the next
column)

What type of stress caused this fault?


Compression / Tension

/ Shear

What kind of Fault is this?


Normal / Reverse / Strike Slip

5. Obtain three pieces of foam. Layer the foam


with the odd color in the middle. Make an Anticline
and a Syncline. Draw what each one looks like.
Color your diagrams and label the youngest rock
layer and the oldest rock layer in each formation.
Also use arrows to show the type of stress that
you put on the foam to form each fold.

7. Obtain one ball of Play-Doh. Before applying


each type of stress below, start with the Play-Doh in
a round ball. Then, draw what it looks like after the
stress is applied. When you are done, place the ball
of Play-Doh back in the back please.
When Play-Doh is Compressed, it looks like:

Anticline

This type of stress occurs at


Syncline

[Convergent/Divergent/Transform] Boundaries.

When we apply Tension to our Play-Doh, it looks


like:
6. Have two of your group members stand up. Act
out the boundaries below. Then draw a picture
using stick figures to show how you moved at each
type of boundary.
Convergent Boundary

This type of stress occurs at


[Convergent/Divergent/Transform] Boundaries

When Shear Stress is applied to our Play-Doh, it


looks like:
Divergent Boundary

This type of stress occurs at


Transform Boundary

[Convergent/Divergent/Transform] Boundaries

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