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                      Dip-slip fault lines

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                      Dip-Slip Faults can occur as normal or reverse faults. A normal fault is when the crust extends and can also can be called an extensional fault. The reverse fault is the exact opposite of the normal, the crust shortens when it's a reverse fault. 

                      Strike-slip fault lines

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                      Some Strike-Slip faults move in a left lateral motion.  They are also known as sinistral faults. The others that move in  a right lateral motion are known as dextral faults.  A class of strike slip faults are Transform fault lines where it causes a plate boundary. 

                      Oblique-slip fault lines

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                      Oblique-Slip faults are a component of the Dip-Slip and a component of Strike-Slip. Some of these faults occur within transtensional and transpressional regimes, and some occur where the direction of extension or shortening changes during the deformation, but the earlier formed faults stay active.

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