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fault line

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fault line [′fȯlt‚līn]
(geology)
Intersection of the fault surface with the surface of the earth or any other horizontal surface of reference. Also known as fault trace.


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The deep fault lines in the administration - as well as the poor calibre of those who seek to run it - has never been more marked.
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard NEWPORT - It's well known at this point that a major fault line runs the length of the West Coast: the Cascadia Subduction Zone, at the joinder of two giant tectonic plates, capable of producing devastating earthquakes of 9.
The potential source of local tsunami is the fault line off Makran, around 90-130 km from the nearest shore where the Arabian Tectonic Plate is slowly subducting below the Eurasian Plate at an average rate of 19 mm per annum, they added.
 
 
 
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