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Meaning of "oblique fault" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OBLIQUE FAULT

oblique fault play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OBLIQUE FAULT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oblique fault is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OBLIQUE FAULT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of oblique fault in the English dictionary

The definition of oblique fault in the dictionary is a fault that runs obliquely to, rather than parallel to or perpendicular to, the strike of the affected rocks.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OBLIQUE FAULT

obligee
obligement
obliger
obliging
obligingly
obligingness
obligor
obliquation
oblique
oblique angle
oblique sailing
oblique zenithal
oblique-slip fault
obliquely
obliqueness
obliquid
obliquities
obliquitous
obliquity
obliquity of the ecliptic

WORDS THAT END LIKE OBLIQUE FAULT

assault
at fault
by default
compound fault
default
dip fault
dip-slip fault
double fault
electrical fault
fault
find fault
foot fault
gravity fault
judgment by default
oblique-slip fault
strike fault
strike-slip fault
thrust fault
to a fault
vault

Synonyms and antonyms of oblique fault in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «oblique fault» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OBLIQUE FAULT

Find out the translation of oblique fault to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oblique fault from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oblique fault» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

斜故障
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

falla oblicua
570 millions of speakers

English

oblique fault
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परोक्ष गलती
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

خطأ منحرف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

косой вина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falha oblíqua
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অগভীর ফল্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faute oblique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesalahan serong
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schrägfehler
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

斜めの断層
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

경사 오류
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oblique fault
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

lỗi xiên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சாய்வு தவறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तिरकस दोष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Eğik hata
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colpa obliquo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ukośne wina
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

косою вина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vina oblic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλάγια σφάλμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skuins skuld
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sned fel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skrå feil
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oblique fault

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OBLIQUE FAULT»

The term «oblique fault» is barely ever used and occupies the 205.904 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OBLIQUE FAULT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oblique fault

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OBLIQUE FAULT»

Discover the use of oblique fault in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oblique fault and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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3D Seismic Technology: Application to the Exploration of ...
However, as in the 60° rift, the accommodation is typically characterized by fault tip rotation and elongation into the accommodation structure, forming an oblique fault zone that could be misconstrued as a strike-slip system (Figs 7d & 8a).
Richard J. Davies, 2004
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Orogenic Curvature: Integrating Paleomagnetic and Structural ...
This area represents the most important bedding oblique fault zone in the central part of the Monterrey salient. This fault zone, the La Piñalosa fault, had been identified as a thrust fault by Padilla y Sánchez (1985); however, Melnyk (1997) and ...
Aviva J. Sussman, Arlo B. Weil, 2004
3
Norumbega Fault System of the Northern Appalachians
B: Conjugate relation between low-angle exten- sional shear bands and individual oblique fault zones (R-shears) and the high-angle, antithetic kink- bands (R'-shears) as seen in the Two Lights and Richmond Island exposures ( Cape ...
Allan Ludman, David P. West, 1999
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Understanding an Orogenic Belt
Table 6.1 Significant criteria to distinguish between strike-slip faults and oblique fault ramps Strike-slip fault Oblique fault ramp 1. Faults are vertical 1. Transfer faults may be vertical but oblique ramps are inclined 2. Faults generally initiate in  ...
Ashok Kumar Dubey
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Engineering Geology
A strike fault is one that trends parallel to the beds it displaces, a dip or cross fault is one that follows the inclination of the strata and an oblique fault runs at angle with the strike of the rocks it intersects. A classification based on the pattern ...
F G Bell, 2007
6
Intraplate Strike-slip Deformation Belts
(200l) noted that oblique fault array geometries and associated displacements in the Cape Roberts region (Wilson l995) match typical patterns observed in analogue fault models of oblique rift systems (Clifton et al. 2000) and over the oblique ...
Fabrizio Storti, Robert E. Holdsworth, Francesco Salvini, 2003
7
Tectonics of Strike-slip Restraining and Releasing Bends
The surface expression of flower structure appears as branching and secondary fault scarps: small pull-apart (stepover) basins; and larger-scale graben and oblique-fault branch scarps that may extend several kilometres away from the PDZ.
W. D. Cunningham, Paul Mann, 2007
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New Perspectives on Rio Grande Rift Basins: From Tectonics ...
... and (3) the coexistence of normal and oblique fault slip (Withjack and Jamison, 1986; Clifton et al., 2000). However, our fault-derived paleostress solutions indicating significant (45°–90°) local clockwise perturbations of σ3 trajectories ...
Mark R. Hudson, V. J. S. Grauch, 2013
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Glosario de la Industria Petrolera:
... buried fault — diagonal, oblique (or diagonal) fault — diagonal de buzamiento, dip-slip diagonal fault — diagonal rumbo, strike-slip diagonal fault — diagonal oblicua, oblique-slip oblique fault — directa, normal (dip-slip) fault — en clave de  ...
Rebecca L. Busby, 2005
10
Exhumation Associated with Continental Strike-slip Fault Systems
Most slipontheOwensValleyfaultistransferrednorthwardtothewest- dipping (50–55 °) White Mountains range-front fault, which has been reactivated as a right- oblique fault (dePolo and Ramelli, 1987;Lienkaemperetal.,1987;dePolo,1989 ...
Alison B. Till, 2007

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OBLIQUE FAULT»

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Earthquakes and mining - how humans create seismic activity
Newcastle has the smallest stress vertical and the largest horizontal, and there is an oblique fault. This combination brings a fault closer to ... «SBS, Jun 12»
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New interest developing in Abidjan Margin geology
A series of rotated northward-dipping oblique fault blocks developed. By the upper Cretaceous, around the Cenomanian, the water deepened and the outer ... «Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine, Jan 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Oblique fault [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/oblique-fault>. May 2024 ».
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