Sentence examples for fault form from inspiring English sources

Oblique-slip (sinistral normal) fault zones located at the southern termination of the Bolfin fault form a well-developed imbricate fan structure.

However, it is also shown from the experiments that different types of faults might represent the same fault form, accordingly, the proposed method is not suitable for performing fault location but for conducting condition monitoring.

Within this depression another major fault forms the Qoltag Mountains, which divide the basin into two sections.

We show the existence of a northward-dipping detachment fault formed at the beginning of the exhumation phase (Burdigalien).

In particular, the multiply reactivated Middle Bore Fault forms a major crustal boundary and is interpreted to mark the northern limit of the Gawler Craton.

They unconformably overlie the Gangdese batholith and are displaced by the Great Counter thrust (GCT) fault, forming a fault contact with the Xigaze forearc basin, the associated subduction complex and the Tethyan Himalayan sequence.

Researchers suspect the fault formed as huge slabs of earth collapsed into the initial crater.

This is considered to represent a preexisting fault formed before subduction began.

At this site, the fault forms a nearly 500-m high scarp (Figure 3a), and the fault tip reaches the surface at the foot of the scarp.

The North Anatolian fault (NAF) is one of the largest currently active dextral strike-slip fault forming the plate boundary between Eurasia and Anatolia.

They also suggest that the Ute Pass fault formed during that era, hundreds of millions of years before the Rockies were even born, making it much older than researchers have previously suspected, he adds.