What are conjugate faults, and what stress information do they give?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Conjugate faults are faults whose acute angle bisects ?1. They form at the same time in the same stress field. Hence, they give the orientation of ?1, ?3 (their line of intersection) and therefore also of ?1 (perpendicular to the others).
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