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Chiefly Physical Geography. The process by which areas of the earth's crust are split into distinct blocks or plates by the formation of large…
faulting which divides a region into blocks.
Geology. The phenomenon of transcurrent faulting.
The formation of large-scale geological structures by high-angle or block faulting, esp. as the result of tensional forces in the crust.