Sentence examples for main fault systems from inspiring English sources

The fault-growth curves allowed us to divide the faulted rift border into four main fault systems, which provide roughly similar Dmax/L ratios.

Thick solid and dashed lines depict the main fault systems.

Arc-type features, georeferenced into WGS84 Ellipsoid UTM zone 33 Projection, represent the five main fault systems that develop in the analysed region.

We aim to evaluate the relationship between the geometry of the drainage network and the main fault systems in this region.

Therefore, motion on linear surface ruptures is likely to release secondary stress caused by the main fault system and/or the strong seismic motion.

In addition, this clastic wedge was supplied by a sand-rich turbidite system that is interpreted to have entered the basin axially, possibly via a prominent relay ramp within the main fault system.

In zone B, around the Kunlun and Xianshuihe faults, several Mw ≥ 6.5 strike-slip earthquakes were generated along the main active fault systems.

The majority of linear surface ruptures found in this study, except for those along the Futagawa and Hinagu fault zones, do not have a direct connection to the main earthquake fault system because there is a clear geographical distance between the main earthquake faults and the linear surface ruptures.

Clustered about the west end of the fault system are several dozen faults that parallel the three main fault zones in the system.

Fig. 1 a Main tectonic units and fault systems in Turkey.

The Marmara region of northwest Turkey is located at the western end of the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ), a main strike-slip fault system that has produced remarkable sequences of destructive earthquakes throughout its length of more than 1500 km (Ambraseys and Finkel 1991; Ambraseys and Jackson 2000; Ambraseys 2002a, b) (Fig. 1).