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Definition of Normal fault
1. Noun. An inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Normal Fault
Literary usage of Normal fault
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1914)
"If we endeavour to restore a system of normal fault-blocks to the relations which
they may have had before faulting, we must commonly construct a ..."
2. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"267, the hanging wall has apparently slipped down with reference to the foot-wall;
a fault of this kind is known as a normal fault. In the other case, ..."
3. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"A normal fault is one in which the hanging wall has apparently slipped down with
... We say "apparently" because sometimes a normal fault may result from ..."
4. Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms by James Geikie (1898)
"SECTION OF normal fault. will thus be practically the same as if the folding and
faulting had been produced by a movement of subsidence. Thus in Fig. ..."
5. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"Shift Fault in Vein Dipping 50°. or of one wall on the other, often ci Same Effect
would be Produced by adjacent rock to a mass of angular normal fault, ..."
6. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1919)
"31, with the stratum dipping as there represented, we should have had a normal
fault and a contraction at right angles to the fault strike. ..."
7. Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Economic Geology by John Casper Branner, John Flesher Newsom (1900)
"III. Fractures produced by faulting. Faults are displacements of strata, either
vertical or horizontal. Fig. 6.—A normal fault in the zinc region of North ..."
8. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"These are normal fault*. The explanation of the structure is doubtless to be ...
According to this rule, a normal fault never brings one part of a bed below ..."
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