Sentence examples for major fault zone from inspiring English sources

A major fault zone bounds the block on the east, and it was along this that the great mass that became the Sierra Nevada was uplifted and tilted westward.

Here, Paleozoic units are exposed along this major fault zone (Ege2004).

Three wells are located within damage zone of the Tanlu major fault zone, and four wells are relatively far from the fault.

Hole C0004D transects the shallow megasplay fault zone, and a major fault zone was identified in this hole at 256 to 315 m depth below the seafloor (mbsf) within Unit III (Figure 2).

One well-studied exhumed major fault zone in a subduction setting is the Nobeoka Thrust in the Kyushu Shimanto Belt, southwest Japan, which is a fossilized subduction zone megasplay fault (e.g., Kimura 1998) that incurred large displacement of 8.6 to 14.4 km and exposes foliated fault rocks formed at temperatures of 150°C to 350°C (Kondo et al. 2005).

An abrupt increase in attenuation to a Q value of 45, which is associated with a region between 1000 and 2000 m depth where the borehole intersects a major fault zone dipping at approximately 50 degrees, was observed in the previous study (Harris et al. 1997).

Major fault zones are also favourable locations for groundwater storage (Dappah and Gyau-Boakye 2000).

In southern Thailand, there are two major fault zones, the Ranong and Klong Marui Fault Zones.

A number of major fault zones dissect the region, some of which are seismically active.

It also shows that crustal structures such as major fault zones can be extended offshore.

Interestingly, this fault zone is not part of the major fault zones observed during borehole logging ([Sausse et al. 2010]).