The phrase "a tilted fault" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in geological contexts to describe a type of fault where the movement has a significant vertical component, often associated with tectonic activity.
Example: "The geologist explained that the region was characterized by a tilted fault, which had caused the landscape to shift dramatically over time."
Alternatives: "an inclined fault" or "a slanted fault".
The Ardmore Field is located on the Argyll Ridge, a large NE SW trending Palaeozoic-age tilted fault block on the south-western flank of the Central Graben in Block 30/24, UK Continental Shelf, about 300 km east from Edinburgh.
Beneath the tilted fault blocks and extensional faults, a low-angle, high-amplitude and continuous reflection has been interpreted as the master detachment surface that controls the extension process.
A Natural active oil seepage occurs at the intersection of the NW-oriented rift coastal fault and a NE-oriented cross fault which bound the southwest dipping Little Zeit tilted fault block at the southwestern side of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt.
The first is tilted fault blocks controlled by footwalls of antithetic faults, and the second is lateral anticlines at hanging walls controlled by synthetic fault linkage points.
The horsts and tilted fault blocks and compression induced traps were mainly developed during the rifting process and provided encouraging exploration opportunities in this basin (Shaw 2002).
These major trends with the other minor trends dissected the basement surface into several tilted fault blocks forming anticlinal and synclinal zones with various depths and directions.
Open image in new window Fig. 5 Interpretation of northwest-southeast seismic lines in the study area revealed tilted fault blocks that are potential traps.
(2) There are two major types of positive micro-amplitude structures developed at the fault edge: the first is tilted fault blocks controlled by the footwall of antithetic faults, and the second is the lateral anticlines at the hanging wall controlled by synthetic fault linkage points.
Localizations of the fan deltas at the sediment-input sites (Wadis Gassus, Guesis, Quwyh and Sharm El Bahari) are controlled by structural and topographic elements, including relay ramps between interacting normal fault segments, cross-trend transfer faults, reactivated Precambrian basement fabrics and the plunge directions of tilted fault blocks.
Bounding surfaces also change character because of an asymmetric subsidence pattern of tilted fault-blocks.
