| 单词 | geological fault |
| 释义 | geological fault (once / 381269 pages) n WORD FAMILY geological fault: geological faults USAGE EXAMPLESIn Tibet, there was a quake in 2010 when there was slippage in the shallow section of geological fault. The Guardian(Nov 05, 2016) East Africa's Great Rift Valley runs along a geological fault line but major earthquakes there are rare. BBC(Sep 28, 2016) This could put extra strain on geological faults that are already close to slipping, the team reports. BBC(Sep 13, 2016) n (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper break, fault, faulting, fracture, shift Denali Fault a major open geological fault in Alaska San Andreas Faulta major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes inclined fault a geological fault in which one side is above the other strike-slip faulta geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally common fault, gravity fault, normal faultan inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall overthrust fault, reverse fault, thrust faulta geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure a long narrow opening |
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