What causes a fault scarp?
What causes a fault scarp? Fault scarps often contain highly fractured rock of both hard and weak consistency. Active scarps are usually formed by tectonic displacement, e.g. when an earthquake changes the elevation of the ground and can be caused by any type of fault, including strike-slip faults, whose motion is primarily horizontal. What is the difference between fault scarp and fault-line scarp? A fault scarp (A) results directly from fault displacement whereas a fault-line scarp results from differential erosion (B). Modified from Stewart, I.S., Hancock, P.L., 1990. Which is the fault scrap? The fault scarp is the feature on...