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HOMOTHETIC FAULT [1 record]

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Record 1 2012-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
DEF

A fault which has the same trend as that of the main zone of faulting.

OBS

synthetic faulting: ... the faults dip in the same direction as an incipient crustal flexure: faulting intensifies subsidence. This is "synthetic" or "homothetic faulting".

OBS

Opposite of antithetic fault.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
DEF

Faille secondaire parallèle à la faille principale.

OBS

Lorsque le pendage de faille est orienté dans le même sens que celui des couches, la faille est dite «conforme» [...]

OBS

Les failles, normales ou inverses, et les décrochements sont alors dites soit synthétiques soit antithétiques par rapport au sens de cette rotation externe [des couches] suivant qu'elles développent un couple de même sens ou de sens contraire [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tectónica
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