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... 7 KB (627 words) - 07:34, 22 April 2024 |
Look up fault or faulty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fault commonly refers to: Fault (geology), planar rock fractures showing evidence of relative... 1 KB (168 words) - 23:51, 28 July 2022 |
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... 9 KB (1,153 words) - 21:35, 19 December 2023 |
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... 38 KB (3,839 words) - 03:40, 22 April 2024 |
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... 71 KB (758 words) - 13:24, 20 March 2022 |
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... 41 KB (4,132 words) - 06:22, 15 April 2024 |
intrusion of magma, or through faulting or other deformation of rock beds that brings distinct rock bodies into contact. The geologic subdiscipline of stratigraphy... 8 KB (966 words) - 02:04, 9 December 2022 |
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... 107 KB (10,615 words) - 19:08, 27 April 2024 |
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... 87 KB (9,583 words) - 17:16, 26 April 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,562 words) - 18:31, 13 October 2023 |
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... 30 KB (660 words) - 06:34, 8 October 2023 |
This is a brief summary of the geology of Indonesia. Indonesia is located between two major tectonic plates, the Australian Plate and the newly-separated... 8 KB (927 words) - 15:07, 24 April 2024 |
The Cadell Fault is a north-south trending intra-plate geological fault in the Riverina area of New South Wales and Victoria, in Australia. It straddles... 12 KB (1,523 words) - 17:11, 25 April 2024 |
New Madrid Seismic Zone (redirect from New Madrid Fault Line) 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... 32 KB (3,764 words) - 13:50, 6 April 2024 |
study of geologic structures has been of prime importance in economic geology, both petroleum geology and mining geology. Folded and faulted rock strata... 22 KB (2,896 words) - 23:06, 27 March 2024 |
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... 31 KB (595 words) - 20:22, 16 December 2023 |
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... 13 KB (1,394 words) - 20:51, 6 April 2024 |
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... 2 KB (144 words) - 08:02, 30 December 2023 |
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... 555 bytes (107 words) - 22:20, 3 December 2023 |
Aseismic creep (redirect from Aseismic fault creep) In geology, aseismic creep or fault creep is measurable surface displacement along a fault in the absence of notable earthquakes. Aseismic creep may also... 5 KB (540 words) - 08:31, 22 April 2024 |