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strike-slip fault

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strike-slip fault [′strīk ¦slip ‚fȯlt]
(geology)
A fault whose direction of movement is parallel to the strike of the fault. Also known as strike-shift fault.
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The Motagua fault is one of three subparallel left-lateral strike-slip faults (with horizontal motion) in Guatemala and forms the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates.
Guatemala has a more complex geologic history than previously thought by Asian News International
00 Paperback Special paper (Geological Society of America); 434 QE606 This collection of geological studies on the subject of exhumation concentrates on strike-slip faults, and how plate boundaries can affect these natural but potentially dangerous occurrences.
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Some tectonic reconstructions of east and SE Asia interpret a large SE Asian block with Borneo at its center which has been rotated clockwise and displaced southwards along major strike-slip faults during the Cenozoic due to the indentation of Asia by India.
Impact of India-Asia collision on SE Asia: the record in Borneo by Hall, Robert; van Hattum, Marco W.A.; Spakman, Wim / Borneo Research Bulletin
 
 
 
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