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fault scarp

noun

, Geology.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fault scarp1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Example Sentences

A normal fault with a hade of 15°, the original fault scarp remaining.

A distinct fault scarp, fifteen to twenty feet high, developed, and in some cases extended right across cultivated fields.

The general character of the fault-scarp changes with the surface features.

There can be no doubt that a fault-scarp is formed in the first place with great rapidity.

But the peculiarity of this pool is that it is not, like the others mentioned above, dammed back by the fault-scarp.

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