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Which type of fault occurs when a piece of rock rises up and over another at a convergent boundary?
oblique fault
strike-slip fault
normal fault
reverse fault
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Reverse fault
At convergent boundaries compression pushes the hanging wall up over the footwall. A thrust fault is a low-angle type of reverse fault.
At convergent boundaries compression pushes the hanging wall up over the footwall. A thrust fault is a low-angle type of reverse fault.
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