faulting
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- noun
- /ˈfɔltɪŋ/
- Specialized
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fallamiento
- The geologist explained how faulting creates fractures in the Earth's crust during an earthquake.
Examples
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All of the observed remote triggering events occurred in areas of known faulting and persistent seismicity.
Academic text (1993) -
However, over time, faulting, rock formation growth, or improper producing methods have made the deposit discontinuous.
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Those earthquakes started to line up along a fault which is at exactly the right orientation for strike slip faulting to occur.
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The end point of the deformation of the memory of a committed fault is its complete suppression.
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Third, a marked correlation between places of magnetic variation associated with geological faulting and the placing of stone circles has been noticed.
Academic text (1990) -
There are areas of the Marcellus play that are adjacent to the Appalachian thrust front where there is a high level of deformation and faulting.
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Subsequent uplift and faulting sliced that variable rock into tightly packed columns.
Academic text (2009) -
The dome's own weight would cause it to push out sideways from the center, producing mountainous tectonic features on the margins through thrust faulting and crustal thickening.
Academic text (1991) -
Unlike what had happened on Ganymede and other solar moons, the unmelted crust of the area surrounding the mare was already too thick to produce the regional grooves caused by wave systems of extensional faulting during the time of melting.
Fiction book (1990) -
They do have some shallower strike-slip type faults nearby FukuDai, more like CA but nowhere near as large, mostly just localized and usually only several miles in length, created secondarily to the thrust faulting.
Blog text (31)
How Extensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
faulting = fault (transparent) = fault + ing
Derived by productive suffixation of the verb 'fault' with '-ing' to denote the process, a straightforward and predictable formation.
Etymology
The word faulting comes from fault, a word for a 'break' or 'defect' that miners used for cracks in rock. So faulting is the process of making a break or movement in the Earth's crust.