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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

with depositional contacts, while faults and shear zones are of particular interest in structural geology. Faults and shear zones can be regarded as...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important[clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity...

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)...

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...

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...

The Philippine fault system is a major inter-related system of geological faults throughout the whole of the Philippine Archipelago, primarily caused...

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...

Fault gouge is a type of fault rock best defined by its grain size. It is found as incohesive fault rock (rock which can be broken into its component...

which describes the large scale motions of Earth's crust (lithosphere). Fault (geology), fracture in Earth's crust where one side moves with respect to the...