Translations for „slip fault“ in the English » Arabic Dictionary

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slip fault GEOL

slip fault

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English

As this takes place, the fault changes from a normal fault with extensional stress to a strike slip fault with lateral stress.

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Currently the island is undergoing a counter-clockwise rotation (17 5 in the last 800,000 years) associated with the south Aegean sinistral strike-slip fault system.

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