fault plane
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fault plane
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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The abundance of fluids within these tiny holes reduces friction along the fault plane, allowing the two rock blocks on either side to slide past each other more easily and generate small earthquakes.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2023
The grinding of the two sides against each other on the fault plane sends out waves of motion of the rock in every direction.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 17, 2023
A thrust fault is a reverse fault where the fault plane has a low dip angle of less than 45°.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The earthquake focus or hypocenter is the point along the fault plane from which initial seismic waves spread outward and is always at some depth below the ground surface.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Where, however, as is generally the case, the shock originates in a fault plane, which may have a length and depth of many miles, the movement has an elliptical form.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
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