strike-slip fault in English
noun
1
a fault in which rock strata are displaced mainly in a horizontal direction, parallel to the line of the fault.
Towards the end of the orogeny, several north-south-trending strike-slip faults were active.
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1. Oblique view of a right-lateral strike-slip fault with multiple Asperities
2. Oblique view of a right-lateral strike-slip fault with multiple Asperities
3. 6 Karayulgun dextral strike-slip fault, which is a thin-skinned structure, adjusted the deformation difference located at frontal range of Quele area.
4. 15 This paper considers that Aerjin Mountain strike-slip fault structure is a huge tectonic zone with the property of left active anticlockwise and thrust nappes and ductile shear zone.