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Thrust Fault  Faille de chevauchement
A low-angle reverse fault (dip of the fault plane is less than 45 degrees) (adapted from: Grotzinger et al., 2007).

Themes:
  Structural geology

 Related words:
  Reverse Fault
  Fault

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