What Can Occur in Association with a Thrust Fault

question 79

Multiple Choice

What can occur in association with a thrust fault?

• A) folding of rocks as the fault grows or propagates upward
• B) folding of rocks as layers are forced up and over bends in the fault
• C) burial and metamorphism of rocks beneath the thrust fault
• D) all of these
• E) none of these

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