| 单词 | block faulting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblock faulting block faulting n. Geology faulting which divides a region into blocks having different elevations.Cf. fault-block n. at fault n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [noun] > faulting rifting1865 thrust-faulting1912 block-faulting1921 transcurrence1971 taphrogenesis1978 1895 Bull. N.Y. State Mus. No. 14. 328 One can not resist the conviction when viewing the dome-shaped peaks or knobs, that they are in a large part due to block faulting. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 15 The Sierra Nevada and Great Basin region of western North America exhibits block faulting or basin-and-range topography on a scale that is probably unparalleled. 2005 S. M. Stanley Earth Syst. Hist. (ed. 2) ix. 203 This block faulting is expressed by a graben running along the ridge's midline. < as lemmas |
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