Sentence examples for discontinuous fault from inspiring English sources

Rupture zones generally consisted of left-stepping en echelon arrays of discontinuous fault traces of various lengths.

(1) The rupture zone generally consisted of a series of left-stepping en echelon arrays of discontinuous fault traces of various lengths.

The Cambay basin is surrounded by the Precambrian Aravalli group of formations in the NE and is bounded by discontinuous faults, including Deccan traps in the east and west as shown in Fig. 1.

The shorter, newer southern rift zone consists of a topographically plunging rift, surrounding by subtle, discontinuous faults.

This suggests that a 2D-like subsurface structure, such as a fault, is discontinuous at this boundary.

The discontinuous active fault traces in Kangra Valley have displaced fluvial terraces and alluvial fan surfaces giving rise to north and south-facing fault scarps.

Discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (DDRX) generally occurs in low-stacking-fault-energy metals.

These shallow discontinuous splay faults seem to merge into the deeper, single mega-splay fault at the transition zone (Figure 2).

Localized discontinuous surfaces (faults, joints, and cracks) formed within the CMVs, but neither a distributed cataclasis process nor plastic deformation was observed in the veins (Fig. 3c).

The discontinuous and fault-bounded ophiolite massifs along the YZS are underlain by mélanges that contain deep marine sedimentary and high-grade metamorphic rocks as well as ophiolitic materials (Guilmette et al. 2008; Xu et al. 2015b).

The extracted fault geometry is discontinuous and en echelon with faults branching trenchward from beneath the outer ridge (Figure 4a,c).