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tear fault

tear fault

[′tar ‚fȯlt]
(geology)
A very steep to vertical fault associated with and perpendicular to the strike of an overthrust fault.
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References in periodicals archive
This observation suggests the existence of a tear fault in the subduction zone preceding a slab break-off.
How the paradoxal Longmen Shan belt has been built: through new petrological structural geochronological data?
South of the latitude of the Caldas tear fault, the volcanic chain of the Andean range is active and starts the transition to inactive volcano occurrences with Quaternary ages (Ruiz volcanic complex) (Figure 1, inset map).
Field guides for excursions to the Nevado del Ruiz Volcano and to the Romeral Fault System (Colombia), in the frame of the Neotectonics of arc-continent collision concepts
Morpho-tectonic evidences of Zagros tear faults, applicable for determination and segmentation of Sabz pushan fault zone (Iran)", Abst., 3lth Int.
The study of Izeh and Dezful shear zones from north to Dezful embayment on east and south west of Zagros
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