Definition of Faulting. Meaning of Faulting. Synonyms of Faulting

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Definition of Faulting

Faulting
Faulting Fault"ing, n. (Geol.) The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
Faulting
Fault Fault, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Faulting.] 1. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame. [Obs.] For that I will not fault thee. --Old Song. 2. (Geol.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.

Meaning of Faulting from wikipedia

- further faults and blocks which fill in the gap. If faults form, imbrication fans or domino faulting may form. Cross-section diagram of a listric fault (red...
- Look up fault or faulty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fault commonly refers to: Fault (geology), planar rock fractures showing evidence of relative...
- theory of faulting, devised by Ernest M****on Anderson in 1905, is a way of classifying geological faults by use of prin****l stress. A fault is a fracture...
- scarp segments. Antithetic faults may also develop, giving rise to surface grabens. Reverse faulting (particularly thrust faulting) is ****ociated with more...
- normal faults modified also by the isostatic effects of tectonic denudation. They may also be called denudation faults. Examples of detachment faulting include:...
- Tilted block faulting, also called rotational block faulting, is a mode of structural evolution in extensional tectonic events, a result of tectonic plates...
- In an electric power system, a fault is a defect that results in abnormality of electric current. A fault current is any abnormal electric current. For...
- oceanic ridges by faults do not follow the classical pattern of an offset fence or geological marker in Reid's rebound theory of faulting, from which the...
- The Balcones[pronunciation?] Fault or Balcones Fault Zone is an area of largely normal faulting in the U.S. state of Texas that runs roughly from the southwest...
- in the Canadian Rockies. The realisation that older strata could, via faulting, be found above younger strata was arrived at more or less independently...