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Bilingual glossary of geology


Dip  Pendage
The amount of tilting of a rock layer; the angle at which the bed inclines from the horizontal. The direction of dip is at 90 degrees from the strike (adapted from: Grotzinger et coll., 2007).

Themes:
  Structural geology

Related words:
  Strike


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