In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass...

Look up fault or faulty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fault commonly refers to: Fault (geology), planar rock fractures showing evidence of relative...

Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust. Large...

oceanic ridges by faults do not follow the classical pattern of an offset fence or geological marker in Reid's rebound theory of faulting, from which the...

theory of faulting, devised by Ernest Masson Anderson in 1905, is a way of classifying geological faults by use of principal stress. A fault is a fracture...

a list of the named geological faults affecting the rocks of Wales. See the main article on faults for a fuller treatment of fault types and nomenclature...

The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state...

intrusion of magma, or through faulting or other deformation of rock beds that brings distinct rock bodies into contact. The geologic subdiscipline of stratigraphy...

The Balcones[pronunciation?] Fault or Balcones Fault Zone is an area of largely normal faulting in the U.S. state of Texas that runs roughly from the southwest...

The Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island, being about 600 km (370 mi). long, and forms...

section intersects the Gloria Fault southeast of the island of Santa Maria. The Azores Fracture Zone extends from the Glória Fault and encompasses a relatively...

movement along the fault. Differential movement and erosion may occur either along older inactive geologic faults, or recent active faults. Fault scarps often...

Boundary Fault. One of the earliest and most prominent references to the Highland Boundary Fault was by George Barrow in 1912 ʻOn the Geology of Lower...

Geology (from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) 'earth' and λoγία (-logía) 'study of, discourse') is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other...

simple shear. Study of geological shear is related to the study of structural geology, rock microstructure or rock texture and fault mechanics. The process...

The Hayward Fault Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip geologic fault zone capable of generating destructive earthquakes. The fault was first named in the...

a result of displacement on a non-planar fault (fault bend fold), at the tip of a propagating fault (fault propagation fold), by differential compaction...

list of the named geological faults affecting the rocks of England. See the main article on faults for a fuller treatment of fault types and nomenclature...

of the Wabash Valley seismic zone. The faults responsible for the NMSZ are embedded in a subsurface geological feature known as the Reelfoot Rift, which...

transition zone of major crustal-scale faults: insights from the Great Glen Fault Zone, Scotland". Journal of Structural Geology. 22 (5): 543–560. Bibcode:2000JSG...

Arthur Keith from the United States Geological Survey first identified an exposed segment of the Brevard Fault in 1905, believing it to be a syncline...

years. Active faulting is considered to be a geologic hazard – one related to earthquakes as a cause. Effects of movement on an active fault include strong...

thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks. A thrust fault is a type of reverse fault that has...

The Ramapo Fault zone is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east. Spanning more than 185 miles (298 km)...

This is a list of the named geological faults in Scotland. See the main article on faults for a fuller treatment of fault types and nomenclature but in...

Look up fault line in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In geology, fault line or faultline refers to the surface trace of a fault. Fault line may also...

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The Elsinore Fault Zone is a large right-lateral strike-slip geological fault structure in Southern California. The fault is part of the trilateral split...

Tabberabbera, Omeo, Deddick, Kuark, Mallacoota). The Moyston Fault is the most important fault as it forms the terrane boundary between the Delamerian and...

study of geologic structures has been of prime importance in economic geology, both petroleum geology and mining geology. Folded and faulted rock strata...