fault plane

How to use fault plane in a sentence

• Thus, in Figure 185, the rigid earth block under lateral thrust has found it easier to break along the fault plane than to fold.

  The Elements of Geology | William Harmon Norton

• In 1891 there occurred along an old fault plane in Japan a slip which produced an earth rent traced for fifty miles (Fig. 192).

  The Elements of Geology | William Harmon Norton

• Normal faults occur in response to pulling or tension; the overlying block moves down the dip of the fault plane.

  Earthquakes | Kaye M. Shedlock

• Thrust (reverse) faults occur in response to squeezing or compression; the overlying block moves up the dip of the fault plane.

  Earthquakes | Kaye M. Shedlock

• The angle (ff´v) which the fault plane makes with the vertical is the hade.

  The Elements of Geology | William Harmon Norton