Sentence examples for parallel to the dip from inspiring English sources

Movement parallel to the dip is called dip-slip faulting.

The summaric subsidence basin, being a sum of elementary basins, will show a visible asymmetry in the cross section parallel to the dip of deposit.

Due to the shallower extension of this low-velocity anomaly parallel to the dip direction of the oceanic crust, the island arc Moho shows a raised structure near the mantle wedge corner between X = -10 km and X = 10 km.

A generic soil element has an effective normal stress (σn) in the direction normal to the slope, and a consolidation shear stress (τc) acting in the plane of the slope parallel to the dip.

Most of the fractures, faults, and mineral veins in the hanging wall are nearly parallel to the dip and strike of the bedding and cleavage, which is approximately 30° toward the SE.

McKenzie (1969) explains the latter situation using examples of intermediate and deep earthquakes taking place in Tonga-Fiji and Kermadec regions where the P-axes of the events are almost parallel to the dip of the subducting slab, where σ1 is in the plane containing the earthquakes and is directed along the dip of the slab.

Strike A B is perpendicular to the strikes of the two nodal planes estimated by Abe (1975), while strike C D is parallel to the dip-direction of the best-fit plane.

Of the 525 focal mechanisms obtained from the induced microearthquake swarm, the great majority yield thrust solutions with one very low-angle nodal plane dipping c. 10° W parallel to the sheet dip of the swarm, but a few have more moderately dipping nodal planes (Baisch et al. 2015).

The mechanisms of subduction earthquakes are down-dip extension, and T axes are oriented parallel to the local dip of the slab.

Both C D and E D lines run parallel to the geomagnetic dip-equator and hence the amplitudes of voltage variation across them are lower than that of A B.

We prepare a volume of 114 km (parallel to the fault slip and dip directions) and 350 km (perpendicular to the fault slip and strike directions).