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In this activity, students create paper models to represent simple faults and illustrate some of the landforms associated with faulting of the Earth's crust. To make the models more realistic, some of the fault scarps are cut by gullies and are eroded in ways indicative of an arid landscape. All of the paper models show displacement on the fault by the use of arrows and by the offset of a marker bed or a stream. Patterns for constructing the models and instructions for assembly are provided.
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DLESE Catalog ID:
DLESE-000-000-009-640
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Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Publisher:
United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geology of the National Parks http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/parks/
Contact:
Phil Stoffer Western Earth Surface Processes Team United States Geological Survey (USGS) |
