geological fault

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geological fault - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"faulting, fracture, break, fault, shiftgeology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocksfault line - (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surfacecrack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure - a long narrow openinginclined fault - a geological fault in which one side is above the otherstrike-slip fault - a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally