STRIKE-SLIP FAULT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("strike-slip fault" is a kind of...):

break; fault; faulting; fracture; geological fault; shift ((geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other)

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