UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY How to construct seven paper models that describe faulting of the Earth

By Tau Rho Alpha and John C. Lahr* Open-file Report 90-25 A

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This report contains instructions and patterns for preparing seven three-dimensional paper models that schematically illustrate common earth faults and associated landforms. The faults described are: normal, reverse, right- and left-lateral strike-slip, and oblique-slip. There are also models and discussions of two fault-produced landforms, a graben and a horst

These models are intended to help students and others visualize the principal classes of faults and learn some of the terminology used by geologists to describe faults. By constructing and examining these models, students will obtain a greater appreciation of the relationship between fault displacements and the landforms that result.

Selected references for additional reading

Atwood, Wallace W., 1964, The physiographic provinces of North America: New York, Blaisdell Pub. Co., 536 p.

 Billings, Marland P., 1946, Structural geology: New York, Prentice-Hall Inc., 473 p. Johnson, D. W., 1930,  Geomorphologic aspects of rift valleys, 15th. International Geologic Congress, Proceedings, vol. 2, p 354-373. 

Lobeck, Armin K., 1939, Geomorphology: New York, McGraw-HiJOook Co. Inc., 731 p. 

Strahler, Arthur N., 1969, Physical Geography, 3d ed., New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 733 p. 

Wallace, R. E., 1968, Notes on stream channels offset by the San Andreas fault, southern Coast Ranges, California, in Dickinson, W. R., and Grantz, Arthur, eds., Proceedings of conference on geologic problems of San Andreas fault system: Stanford, California, Stanford University