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Definition of Gravity fault
1. Noun. An inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravity Fault
Literary usage of Gravity fault
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Where the hanging-wall side of a fault is depressed with reference to the foot-wall
side, the fault is said to be a normal от gravity fault. ..."
2. Structural Geology by Charles Kenneth Leith (1913)
"... or gravity fault (Fig. 17). The displacement of the crust by such faults is
apparently downward and therefore apparently due to gravitational forces. ..."
3. Field Methods in Petroleum Geology by Guy Henry Cox (1921)
"gravity fault—a very loosely used and indefinite term, originally meant to apply
to faults produced by gravity, ie, by settling of the beds. ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"It is a hinge-type gravity fault, the south side of which has been depressed.
The greatest throw is at its west end at the Biwabik Mine, Lot 4, Sec. ..."
5. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"428 represents a normal or gravity fault, and Fig. 429 a rei-ersed or thrust fault.
The former implies tension when it was made, and the adjustment takes ..."
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