Sentence examples for major fault segments from inspiring English sources

Deformation structures in the Jurassic Moab Member of the Entrada Sandstone have been studied in the Courthouse area where two major fault segments (Segments A and B) of the Moab Fault are connected.

It consists of four parallel north dipping major fault segments and five synthetic fault segments (Koçyiğit, 2005).

This fault system is also characterized by right-lateral motion on strike-slip faults, and it is divided into about 20 major fault segments (Sieh and Natawidjaja 2000).

The Marmara Sea, accommodating the fault segments of a major transform fault, is well known as a seismic gap along the North Anatolian Fault (NAF), running through the northern part of Turkey and connecting the East Anatolian convergent area with the Hellenic subduction zone (e.g., Pınar 1943; Toksöz et al. 1979; Pondard et al. 2007; Şengör et al. 2014).

Because the occurrence and slip distributions of major earthquakes are strongly affected by fault length and geometry, mapping the fault segments would provide valuable information that would be useful for developing scenarios for future earthquakes.

Many of the WNW-trending faults correlate with major strike changes on regional and camp-scale faults and they are domain boundaries for the critical N-trending fault segments that host high-grade gold within contractional jogs.

Associated with this are many fault segments.

One major fault: no U.S.B. connector.

The NNE faults consist of right-stepping sinistral strike-slip fault segments (e.g. Sin El Kiddab fault).

Three fault segments with the reddest colors - hence the greatest likelihoods of rupture - stand out.

Fortunately, both of these fault segments cross areas with relatively sparse population.