Tag:geological=fault

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A geological fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock. Show/edit corresponding data item.
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In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

See fault (geology) on Wikipedia.

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