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Definition of Faults
1. fault [v] - See also: fault
Lexicographical Neighbors of Faults
Literary usage of Faults
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Geologic Age'of faults.—The geologic age of faults is ascertained from ...
Post-Pleistocene faults in Bedrock.—In countries which were glaciated in the ..."
2. Bulletin by Kentucky Geological Survey (1907)
"Besides the master fault, complementary parallels or sub- parallels, and cross,
or intersecting, faults are to be located, since frequently, ..."
3. Bulletin by New Zealand Geological Survey (1912)
"It must not be inferred that ore deposits occur in all faults, for many carry no
ore at all, and none of considerable size carry ore throughout. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"They are not always to be sharply marked off from each other, for the dip-faults
will often lie observed to deviate considerably from the normal direction ..."
5. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"CHAPTER C THE SUPPOSED faults OF DEMOCRACY THE question which in one form or ...
We have to ask first, how far the faults usually charged on democracy are ..."
6. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.' If the open
professors of impiety deserve the utmost application and endeavours of moral ..."