Sentence examples for reverse fault from inspiring English sources
noun
A type of fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
The black broken line indicates the reverse fault.
The Dedana fault is reactivated as a reverse fault.
From the 31 stable solutions, 16 show reverse fault or oblique reverse fault characteristics, whereas 13 exhibit strike-slip mechanisms.
When the sedimentary layer is in contact with the basement by reverse fault, the dip of the minimum eigenvector follows the dip of the reverse fault.
These dual setting will provide the desired protection on forward and reverse fault current directions.
The well is located in the upthrown side of recent E W reverse fault (Fig. 13).
This observation is consistent with reverse fault-related earthquake focal mechanisms obtained during previous research (Kaneshima, 1990).
The normal fault-type events, however, are fewer than reverse fault-type events as shown in Fig. 6.
The ΔCFF for the reverse faults in the shallow crust suggests that the future probability of reverse-fault earthquakes will be decreased in the land area of Tohoku.
Almost the same as the right figure in Fig. 5 but normal fault-type and reverse fault-type events are omitted.
Solutions in blue indicate reverse-fault type events with rakes from +40° to +140°.
