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PRONUNCIATION OF STRIKE-SLIP FAULT

strike-slip fault play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRIKE-SLIP FAULT

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Strike-Slip fault is a noun.
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WHAT DOES STRIKE-SLIP FAULT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

strike-slip fault

Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement along the fractures as a result of earth movement. Large faults within the Earth's crust result from the action of plate tectonic forces, with the largest forming the boundaries between the plates, such as subduction zones or transform faults. Energy release associated with rapid movement on active faults is the cause of most earthquakes. A fault line is the surface trace of a fault, the line of intersection between the fault plane and the Earth's surface. Since faults do not usually consist of a single, clean fracture, geologists use the term fault zone when referring to the zone of complex deformation associated with the fault plane. The two sides of a non-vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. By definition, the hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below the fault. This terminology comes from mining: when working a tabular ore body, the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall hanging above him.

Definition of strike-slip fault in the English dictionary

The definition of strike-slip fault in the dictionary is a geological fault on which the movement is along the strike of the fault.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRIKE-SLIP FAULT

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strike note
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strike oil
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strike the flag
strike the right note
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strike-breaking
strikebound
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striker

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRIKE-SLIP 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 fault
oblique-slip fault
strike fault
thrust fault
to a fault
vault

Synonyms and antonyms of strike-slip fault in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «strike-slip fault» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STRIKE-SLIP FAULT

Find out the translation of strike-slip fault to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of strike-slip 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 «strike-slip fault» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

走滑断层
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

falla de desgarre
570 millions of speakers

English

strike-slip fault
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हड़ताल पर्ची गलती
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضربة خطأ الانزلاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Неисправность сдвиговые
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falha transcorrente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হরতাল-স্লিপ ফল্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faille décrochante
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesalahan slip
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Blattverschiebung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

横ずれ断層
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

파업 슬립 오류
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kesalahan-slip kesalahan
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

lỗi tấn công chống trượt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வேலைநிறுத்தம்-சீட்டு தவறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्ट्राइक-स्लिप फॉल्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Grev kayma fayı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colpa strike-slip
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Strajk -slip błąd
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Несправність сдвіговиє
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vina grevă - alunecare
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

απεργία - slip σφάλμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

staking -slip skuld
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

strike -slip fel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

strike- slip feil
5 millions of speakers

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STRIKE-SLIP FAULT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about strike-slip fault

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRIKE-SLIP FAULT»

Discover the use of strike-slip fault in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to strike-slip fault and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tectonics of Strike-slip Restraining and Releasing Bends
Global catalogue, classification and tectonic origins of restraining- and releasing bends on active and ancient strike-slip fault systems P. MANN Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 10100 ...
W. D. Cunningham, Paul Mann, 2007
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Intraplate Strike-slip Deformation Belts
Although quite a number of experimental studies have investigated strike-slip faulting, most of them used a single basement strike-slip fault (or basal velocity continuity) to induce faulting in an overburden consisting of sand or clay with or ...
Fabrizio Storti, Robert E. Holdsworth, Francesco Salvini, 2003
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Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the ...
4D evolution of segmented strike-slip fault systems: applications to NW Europe T. DOOLEY. K. McCLAY and M. BONORA Fault Dynamics Research Group, Geology Department, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW2Q ...
A. J. Fleet, S. A. Boldy, 1999
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Active Strike-slip and Collisional Tectonics of the Northern ...
These geomorphic and paleoseismologic data indicate that at the surface in this area the Septentrional fault is a near-pure left-lateral strike-slip fault that locally exhibits an oblique-normal component of displacement (Prentice et al., 1993; ...
James F. Dolan, Paul Mann, 1998
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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
Ikuo Towhata. 16.4 Example of Strike–Slip Fault A strike-slip fault is characterized by relative displacement in the horizontal direction. Figure 16.16 shows an example that was observed after the Tangshan earthquake, North China. One of the ...
Ikuo Towhata, 2008
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Episodic Development of Fault-zone Architecture Investigated ...
Chapter 5: Downdip Segmentation of Strike-Slip Fault Zones in the Brittle Crust 5.1 Summary Outcrop-scale field evidence from the southern San Jacinto fault zone in southern California indicates that bedding-parallel slip may be an important ...
Eliza S. Nemser, 2009
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Rock Joints: The Mechanical Genesis
... strike-slip fault (Andersonian type) which is not affected by other faults. We briefly recapitulate in Fig. 7.18 the stress states associated with the initiation, weakening and the eventual inactivation of the fault. The dotted stress circle in Fig. 7.
Georg Mandl, 2005
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New Insights Into Structural Interpretation and Modelling
3D evolution of a pop-up structure above a double basement strike-slip fault: some insights from analogue modelling W. P. SCHELLART* & D. A. NIEUWLAND Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Tectonics, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan ...
D. A. Nieuwland, 2003
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Strike/Slip
In this extraordinary collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Don McKay walks the strike-slip fault between poetry and landscape, sticks its strange nose into the cold silence of geologic time, meditates on marble, quartz and ...
Don McKay, 2013
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Earthquake Source Mechanics
The earthquake fault of 1920 caused slip along the major strike-slip fault segments and along oblique normal faults within pull-apart basins. Thus segments with pure strike-slip and with oblique normal slip, were activated in 1920, each with ...
Shamita Das, John Boatwright, Christopher H. Scholz, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRIKE-SLIP FAULT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term strike-slip fault is used in the context of the following news items.
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Helium finding adds new wrinkle to Newport-Inglewood fault
Boles said this suggests the Newport-Inglewood fault is much deeper than ... San Andreas fault — a so-called strike-slip fault that cuts through the Earth's crust in ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
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Earthquake Fact Check: Seismologist's Take on the Disaster Film …
The San Andreas Fault awakens, unleashing back-to-back jolts that leave a trail of ... The San Andreas is strike-slip fault, in which opposing blocks of rocks slide ... «NBC Southern California, May 15»
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San Andreas Ready to Blow – In Theaters and In Real Life
The new film, San Andreas, depicts the rupture of an unknown fault near the ... The San Andreas is a strike-slip fault, meaning the plates are grinding past each ... «Science Times, May 15»
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Earthquake reality check: Facts behind "San Andreas"
LOS ANGELES -- The San Andreas Fault awakens, unleashing back-to-back jolts ... The San Andreas is strike-slip fault, in which opposing blocks of rocks slide ... «CBS News, May 15»
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Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake in Nepal
Right-lateral, strike-slip faults (comparable in size to the left-lateral faults), in this region include the Karakorum, Red River, and Sagaing. Secondary north-south ... «YubaNet, Apr 15»
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New research complicates seismic hazard for British Columbia …
Prior to the 2012 earthquake, the Queen Charlotte Fault, a strike-slip fault similar to the San Andreas Fault in California, was the dominating tectonic structure in ... «Phys.Org, Apr 15»
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Calaveras-Hayward fault link means potentially larger quakes
UC Berkeley seismologists have proven that the Hayward Fault is essentially a ... Both are strike-slip faults – the western side moves northward relative to the ... «UC Berkeley, Apr 15»
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What Causes an Earthquake? Faults Explained
This aerial photo shows the San Andreas Fault, a large strike-slip fault in California. Photograph ... They all spring from faults deep underground, but what kind? «National Geographic, Jan 14»
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Strike-Slip Faults: Restraining Bends In Santa Cruz Mountains Imaged
Certain sections of strike-slip faults, known as restraining bends, are sites of unusual tectonic activity because they undergo more contractional motion than ... «Science 2.0, Jul 13»
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The Loch Ness monster legend: It's geology's fault
The Great Glen fault is more than 62 miles (100 kilometers) long and cuts the Scottish Highlands into northern and southern halves. The strike-slip fault, where ... «NBCNews.com, Jul 13»

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