Concept information
Preferred term
fault
Type
-
http://www.irandoc.ac.ir/onto/irandoc-meta/Concept
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- active fault
- antithetic fault
- arcuate fault
- auxiliary fault
- bedding fault
- boundary fault
- compound fault
- conformed fault
- conjugate fault
- detachment fault
- dip fault
- dip-slip fault
- extension fault
- feather fault
- growth fault
- high-angle fault
- hinge fault
- hinge line fault
- imbricate fault
- lateral fault
- listric fault
- longitudinal fault
- low-angle fault
- normal fault
- oblique-slip fault
- parallel fault
- peripheral fault
- radial fault
- reverse fault
- ring fault
- step fault
- strike fault
- strike-slip fault
- synthetic fault
- tangential fault
- tear fault
- thrust fault
- transcurrent fault
- transfer fault
- transform fault
- transverse fault
- unconformed fault
- wrench fault
Definitions
- In geology, a fault or fault line is a planar rock fracture, which shows evidence of relative movement. Large faults within the Earth's crust are the result of shear motion and active fault zones are the causal locations of most earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by energy release during rapid slippage along faults. The largest examples are at tectonic plate boundaries but many faults occur far from active plate boundaries. Since faults do not usually consist of a single, clean fracture, the term fault zone is used when referring to the zone of complex deformation that is associated with the fault plane.
Obsolete
- false
In other languages
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Persian
URI
http://www.irandoc.acir/onto/irandoc/SWEETT19686
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