Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometers in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in the Earth`s crust. Large areas of bedrock are broken up into blocks by faults. Blocks are characterized by relatively uniform lithology. The largest of these fault blocks are called crustal blocks. Large crustal bl....
A section of rock separated from other rock by one or more faults.
A rock mass bounded by faults on at least two sides.
Pieces of crust that have slipped into or alongside a fault.