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OBLIQUE DIP FAULT [1 record]

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Record 1 2010-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
OBS

... if the [fault] trace was aligned approximately perpendicular to the strike [of the beds], it was termed a "dip-fault;" ... while if the fault trace was parallel to neither the dip nor the strike, the structure was termed "transverse" or sometimes an "oblique-dip fault." Such terms, which do not take into account the orientation of the shear plane and the direction of shear displacement and are concerned only with a line exposed in an essentially two-dimensional view, are clearly of very little significance and nowadays are rarely used.

Key term(s)
  • oblique dip fault

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique

Spanish

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