Fault Block Models
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Fault block models to simulate fault movement at faults and plate boundaries, mountain formation, etc.
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- Printables
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- Other 3D Objects for Learning
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These blocks allow my students to model the movement of Earth's crust along fault lines and plate boundaries. They also help model the formation of folded mountain ranges and fault-block mountains. I placed a highway on the top to visualize ground movement in an earthquake.
Specifically we can model:
- Faults: normal, reverse (and megathrust), and strike-slip
- Plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform
- Mountain formation: Fault-block, folded mountains
- Complex faults with horsts and grabens
Each block has 2 configurations; a 4 layer and a 3 layer version.
- Hanging wall (above fault plane)
- Foot wall (below fault plane)
- Horst (upward facing trapezoid)
- Graben (downward facing trapezoid)
- Vertical fault plane (for use with strike-slip faults at transform boundaries)
I print in 0.2 mm layers.
Filament change layers for the 4 layered blocks:
0-75 Brown
76-150 Orange
151-225 Yellow
226-300 Green
301-302 Yellow
303-304 Black
Filament change layers for the 3 layered blocks:
0-75 Orange
76-150 Yellow
151-225 Green
226-227 Yellow
228-229 Black
You can print each file individually, or print “Plate 3” or “Plate 4” Which has all faults on them.