The oblique/slip fault is very different for the reverse and normal fault. Instead of sliding upwards or downwards both pieces of earth scrape side by side. Although this type of fault does not produce fault scarps we do see some change in the landscape. Where the two blocks of earth have scraped the rock is weakened. Streams that have been flowing across the oblique/slip fault are often diverted to the weakened zone (USGS Science for a Changing World, 2014).