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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust result from the action of plate tectonic forces, with the largest forming the boundaries between the plates, such as the megathrust faults of subduction…

Art, Fault rock & Impacts on structures and people

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Mechanisms of faulting

Slip, heave, throw

Hanging wall and footwall

Fault types

Fault rock

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Faults and ore deposits

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Fault (geology)

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