Fault Block Models

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.