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Keywords: Dislocation, Displaced, Fault, Seam, Ahdos

Related Terms: Asthenosphere, Earthquake, Extension, Fault, Heave, Isostasy, Joint, Landslide, Lithosphere, Plate Tectonics, Rift, Shear, Slickensides, Slide, Slip , Slip , Slump, Tectonic, Uplift, Horst, Isostatic Rebound, Epicenter, Thrust Fault, Transform Fault, Graben, Footwall, Hanging Wall, Normal Fault, Reverse Fault, Shear Zone, Fold, Plate, Mass Movement, Shearing, Slumping, Plates, Strike-Slip Fault, Faulting, Deformation, Thrust , Helictite, Fault Zone, Mantle Plume, Rockslide, Radial Velocity, Nappe, Volcanic Arc, Fault Line, Seismic Moment

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A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

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an event in which something is displaced without rotation

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(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"

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Term used in describing displacement of fracture fragments. There is loss of alignment in the cortices of the shaft of the bone resulting onto sideways displacement

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a slight fault or dislocation in a seam or stratum. [AHDOS

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