Definition of Faulted

1. Verb. (past of fault) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Faulted

1. fault [v] - See also: fault

Lexicographical Neighbors of Faulted

faulcons
fauld
faulds
faule
faules
fault
fault-line
fault gouge
fault line
fault lines
fault plane
fault scarp
fault trace
fault traces
faultable
faulted (current term)
faulter
faulters
faultfinder
faultfinders
faultfinding
faultfinding(a)
faultfindings
faultful
faultier
faultiest
faultily
faultiness
faultinesses
faulting

Literary usage of Faulted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"In the western or Aberdaron tract the masses of shale are for the most part faulted patches, and the only idea of their place in the succession is obtained ..."

2. The Deposits of the Useful Minerals & Rocks: Their Origin, Form, and Content by Franz Heinrich August Beyschlag, Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1914)
"—Illustrating the search for the faulted portion of an inclined deposit at the surface by assuming that it is either one limb of a syncline or one limb of ..."

3. A Study of Ore Deposits for the Practical Miner: With Descriptions of Ore by James Philip Wallace (1908)
"The faulted portion of the vein has shifted its position to some unknown ... When driving on a north-south vertical vein it is found to be faulted by a ..."

4. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"CHAPTER XXIII THE SCULPTURING OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE (Continued) THE EROSION CYCLE IN A faulted REGION A REGION that has been subjected to extensive ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"28 and 29) we see that the horizontal distance to which the two ends of a faulted stratum may be separated does not depend upon the amount of throw but upon ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Hamilton places it at Kotch Steccata Confraternity, weary of waiting, had him and the Itineraries; in the sixth century by Hierocles, faulted, and made his ..."

7. Geology Applied to Mining: A Concise Summary of the Chief Geological by Josiah Edward Spurr (1907)
"faulted FAULTS AND THEIR RELATION TO ORE-DEPOSITION. Are the faults of one period ever faulted by the faults of a ..."

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