A 120MWe hydroelectric project is proposed to be built along a major river system somewhere in Negros Island. The project will be located between two volcanoes that are both historically active. Mt. Dumagan is located 12 km north of the proposed hydro-electric project (HEP). And the other volcano Mt. Kantanda is more or less also at 12km distance as well south from the site. As a member of a local geological consultancy firm you are asked by your client with the following questions: 7. A fault is detected running almost parallel to the river system which flows downstream in a westward direction. What do you think is the strike of the fault in terms of azimuth? There were no vertical displacements noted from each fault block however a tributary river is found to be offset horizontally. What type of fault could it be? 8. How will you know the possible amount of slip between the two blocks that slid past one another? 9. During your traverse along the east-west trending river system of the project site you noticed some outcrops of limestone beds about 5km downstream from the proposed dam. These beds are dipping eastward. You did not find any outcrop of limestone in the proposed HEP however further upstream about 4 km from the proposed dam you found an outcrop of similar limestone beds again but dipping westward. What do you think happened with these limestone beds and why are not they observed in the HEP?

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