Sentence examples for natural fault from inspiring English sources

In fact, high-velocity (1.3 m/s) friction experiments on natural fault gouges successively reproduced fluidization-related microstructures found in nature, during which the apparent coefficient of friction (ratio of shear to normal stress) decreased to approximately 0.1 to 0.2 (Mizoguchi et al. 2009; Kitajima et al. 2010; Ujiie and Tsutsumi 2010).

Southerners, however, had extended political rights to all white men by basing social divisions on what Hotze believed to be the natural fault lines of race.

"Whenever the UN gets involved, there is a natural fault line between the political side of the organisation and the humanitarian side," the diplomat said.

Open image in new window Fig. 4 Showing SDWs placed along natural fault systems.

Earthquakes recorded worldwide from various natural fault environments exhibit a specific magnitude distribution.

Natural fault damage zones are composed of clusters of sub-seismic-scale faults surrounding larger faults.

Mr. Seinen said the faults in Groningen Province were natural faults; he did not say they were created by the extraction of natural gas.

Chiel Seinen, a spokesman for the gas consortium known as NAM, said there were at least 1,800 natural faults in the region's subsoil.

For natural faults, f c is estimated to be 1 to 100 Hz, which is practicable in the field.

Two fundamental questions need to be addressed to assess the feasibility of acoustic monitoring of natural faults.

Natural faults are embedded in an elastic continuum, and hence the dynamic system has infinite degrees of freedom.