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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Look up fault or faulty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fault commonly refers to: Fault (geology), planar rock fractures showing evidence of relative...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • intrusion of magma, or through faulting or other deformation of rock beds that brings distinct rock bodies into contact. The geologic subdiscipline of stratigraphy...
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  • 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...
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    Azores (redirect from Geology of the Azores)
    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...
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    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...
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    movement along the fault. Differential movement and erosion may occur either along older inactive geologic faults, or recent active faults. Fault scarps often...
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    simple shear. Study of geological shear is related to the study of structural geology, rock microstructure or rock texture and fault mechanics. The process...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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)...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Garden Strike-Slip Fault Zone: A Major Seismic Hazard Affecting Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica". 18th Caribbean Geological Conference. Archived...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    easily. Breccia Cataclasite Mylonite Fault (geology) Twiss, R.J. & Moores, E.M., 2000 (6th edition): Structural Geology, W.H. Freeman & co, ISBN 0-7167-2252-6;...
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    In geology, a striation is a groove, created by a geological process, on the surface of a rock or a mineral. In structural geology, striations are linear...
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  • The Philippine fault system is a major inter-related system of geological faults throughout the whole of the Philippine Archipelago, primarily caused...
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    Tabberabbera, Omeo, Deddick, Kuark, Mallacoota). The Moyston Fault is the most important fault as it forms the terrane boundary between the Delamerian and...
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