In geology if a Dip is horizontal would the strike be verticle? and how would you lable it?

Answer 1

Well, this would not have a strike. It is labeled usually with a circle with a line through it (like the greek letter phi) or a plus in a circle, or, most commonly, a long line with a short line accross it (like a lower case 't').

Answer 2

Strike is the general trend a formation follows (North-south, northwest, etc, etc). It would give a direction one could look to find the formation. The dip is the angle of the formation from horizontal. So flatlying beds would have 0 dip. Slightly tilted beds would have 10 dip, etc, etc.

Strike and dip are usually labeled (on geologic maps) by a straight line in the direction of the strike with a smaller perpendicular line indicating the dip and the dip angle is usually written by the smaller line. Could always look up some geology dictionary sites on google as well, if this didn't help.

Answer 3

Strike of a plane is its line of intersection with a horizontal plane. If the plane in question is horizontal, i.e., dip is horizontal or zero, it cannot have an intersection with another horizontal plane. So a horizontal plane does not have a strike.
By "lable", perhaps you wanted to know how to lebel it on a map or the map symbol of the horizontal plane. Well, the convention is to show it with an enlarged plus sign. Any text book on Structural Geology will show you this symbol.

Answer 4

Horizontal beds don't have a strike. Map symbol for flat lying beds is usually a cross with both lines the same length. "t" usually indicates a bed dipping sub vertically. Of course you can use any symbol you wish as long as you put it in your legend.