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What happens at a reverse fault plane?

A. Shear causes horizontal movement.
B. Tension causes downward vertical movement.
C. Tension and shear cause horizontal movement.
D. Compression causes upward vertical movement.

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The answer is option D.
Compression causes upward vertical movement happens at a reverse fault plane.
There are three types of stress that acts on rocks of earth that are compression, shear and tension. Every type of stress have its own function to do like shear causes a material to twist, tension pulls a material apart and compression decreases the volume of material and the surface along which movement takes place is called as fault plane.
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