The phrase "a smaller fault" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the severity or size of faults, errors, or mistakes, indicating that one is less significant than another.
Example: "While the project had several issues, the team agreed that a smaller fault was the misalignment of the graphics."
Alternatives: "a minor error" or "a lesser mistake."
This paper focuses on a small fault zone (too small to be detected by geophysical imaging) affecting a carbonate reservoir composed of porous and low-porosity layers.
This paper describes the structural, petrophysical and hydromechanical properties relationships between a small fault zone and the porous layered carbonate series which host it.
Simulations with measurement data from an experimental water tank setup show that the method is capable of detecting a small fault without generating false alarms.
"The logistics are much more complex," says Katrina, "if there's a small fault on something, you can't just send somebody over, in the way you can here, to sort it out".
One is a seismically active fault zone several kilometers long (the Roccasseira Fault Zone); the other is a small fault zone a few hundred meters long (the GAS Fault Zone).
The seismic (P-waves velocity, VP) signature of a small fault zone intersecting carbonate reservoir layers with contrasted properties of the southeastern French sedimentary basin was studied from the micro-scale to the fault zone pluri-meter scale architecture.
"Shakespeare's World," a collaboration between the Oxford English Dictionary and the Folger Shakespeare Library, reports that, in 1567, one Ralph Adderly wrote of his brother-in-law, "I do assure you he is unsuspected of any untruth or other notable crime (except a white lie) which is taken for a Small fault in these parts".
Let us consider a small fault with short duration during which the acceleration power for a generator can be considered a constant.
A small fault or mistake made in our daily life might not be so severe but in the health care domain, the smallest mistake in development can make the difference between life and death (Lindholm and Host 2009).
