strike slip


nounGeology.
  1. the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.

Origin of strike slip

1
First recorded in 1910–15

Other words from strike slip

  • strike-slip, adjective

Words Nearby strike slip

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How to use strike slip in a sentence

  • Strike-slip (lateral) faults occur in response to either type of stress; the blocks move horizontally past one another.

    Earthquakes | Kaye M. Shedlock
  • Most faulting along spreading zones is normal, along subduction zones is thrust, and along transform faults is strike-slip.

    Earthquakes | Kaye M. Shedlock
  • The single line defines a strike-slip fault along which plates are sliding horizontally past one another.

    Volcanoes | Robert I. Tilling