How Can a Fault Help Trap Oil

question 44

Multiple Choice

How can a fault help trap oil?

• A) it can place a permeable rock against truncated oil-bearing layers
• B) movement of layers over a bend in a fault can form an anticline
• C) faulting can grind up and heat quartzite, producing oil
• D) all of these

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