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Definition of step faults

step faults
Fault Fault, n. 1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. 2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the fault plane. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a vertical fault; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a normal, or gravity, fault. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a reverse (or reversed), thrust, or overthrust, fault. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a horizontal fault. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the displacement; the vertical displacement is the throw; the horizontal displacement is the heave. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the trend of the fault. A fault is a strike fault when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a dip fault when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an oblique fault when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called cross faults. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called step faults and sometimes distributive faults.

Meaning of step faults from wikipedia

- Prolonged motion along closely spaced faults can blur the distinction, as the rock between the faults is converted to fault-bound lenses of rock and then progressively...
- extensional step over in the fault, which created a natural depression where water could settle. A common misconception is that Lawson named the fault after...
- movement along the fault. Differential movement and erosion may occur either along older inactive geologic faults, or recent active faults. Fault scarps often...
- Retrieved 21 June 2023. Hill-Paul, Lucas (7 June 2023). "My Fault Review: Sloppy step-sibling romance is Prime Video's guiltiest pleasure". Daily Express...
- en-echelon faults trending in different directions, making the fault s****s zigzag rather than a straight line. Spread between the block faulted Palaeogene...
- in the metaphor refers to a dangerous structural fault, such as a missing step in a staircase; a fault that people may become used to and quietly accepting...
- 20minutos.es. Bradshaw, Peter (18 December 2024). "Your Fault review – bizarre and wooden step-sibling romance". The Guardian. Morillas, Alejandro (18...
- The following is an episode list for the American television sitcom Step by Step. The series originally ran for six seasons on ABC from September 20, 1991...
- bounded by faults on all its sides except the southern side. The basin is bounded by the West Margin Fault and the Malda–Kishanganj Fault in the west...
- Look up stepover or step over in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stepover or step over may refer to: Fault stepover, term from strike-slip tectonics...