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Bilingual glossary of geology


Fault  Faille
A brittle fracture along which movement has taken place (adapted from: Plummer et al., 2007).

Themes:
  Structural geology

Related words:
  Thrust Fault
  Strike-Slip Fault
  Reverse Fault
  Normal Fault
  Transform Fault