Block movement

…The earth's crust is thought to be made up of blocks of various sizes, but the largest of them are those called stable blocks or continental blocks. Block movement is called block movement, and its nature is characterized by the type of movement of the faults that form the boundaries of the blocks. There are two types of fault movement: lateral slip, which has a large component of movement parallel to the strike of the fault plane, and vertical slip, which has a large component of movement along the dip direction of the fault plane. There are also types of movement that involve rotation. …

*Some of the terms that refer to "block movement" are listed below.

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…地殻は，大小さまざまな規模の地塊から成ると考えられるが，安定地塊，大陸地塊などと呼ばれるものは，なかでも最も大規模なものである。　地塊の運動を地塊運動block movementといい，その性質は地塊の境界となっている断層の運動様式で特徴づけられる。断層の運動様式には，断層面の走向に平行な移動成分の大きい〈横すべり〉型のものと，断層面の傾斜方向に沿う移動成分の大きい〈縦すべり〉型のものとがあり，さらにこのほかに回転を伴う型の運動もある。…

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