The picture below shows a cemented breccia the result of faulting. The rock crumbled into a numerous angulous clasts. A silica-rich fluid circulated through the fault zone precipitating quartz that cemented the clasts together.

1/ Define the following terms: a fact, an hypothesis, a theory and a law.

2/ Define the Darwinian scientific method.

3/ A scientific model should always verify a number of characterisitics. What are they ?

4/ How do stylolitic joints form?

5/ What are the two main type of fractures?

6/ Draw a stylolite / extensional fracture association and give the orientation of the principal stress axes.

7/ What are the three main type of faults?

8/ Describe the three mode of fractures?

9/ Define the following concepts: 1/ A listric fault. 2/ The kinematic plane.

10/ Define the following concepts: Vertical and horizontal throw, the heave, the net slip?