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Keywords: Trace, Fracture, Interssection, Ahdos, Planar

Related Terms: Contour , Asthenosphere, Dip, Earthquake, Fault, Hachure, Lineament, Massif, Moho , Plate Tectonics, Rift, Shift , Slickensides, Slide, Slip , Strike, Tectonic, Tectonics, Uplift, Subduction, Horst, Contour Line, Epicenter, Thrust Fault, Transform Fault, Orogeny, Graben, Footwall, Hanging Wall, Normal Fault, Reverse Fault, Fault Scarp, Mohorovicic Discontinuity, Hypocenter, Contour Lines, Strike-Slip Fault, Faulting, Benioff Zone, Continental Crust, Rifting, Thrust , Fault Zone, Rift Zone, Nappe, Isobath, Active Fault, Volcanic Arc, Dip Slope, Seismic Moment

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(geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface

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a fracture in the Earth's crust where earthquakes occur

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The trace of a fault plane on the ground surface or on a reference plane.

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a fracture line or zone that reaches the surface where there has been parallel displacement along the fracture due to tectonic activity.

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The trace of a fault on the surface, frequently exposed by erosion. Often simply called a fault.

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A commonly-used term that is synonymous with the Surface Trace of a fault. It should never be used to describe the fault itself; faults are planar, not linear, features.

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a line formed by the interssection of a fault plane with the surface of the earth; the trace of a fault. [AHDOS

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