| 单词 | fault-block |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfault-block fault-block n. a mass of displaced rock (sometimes of extensive area) bounded by or between two faults. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > mass > [noun] > of rock > between faults cleavage-mass1871 trough fault1883 horst1893 fault-block1897 thrust-mass1901 klippe1902 slice1914 rift block1915 nappe1922 1897 W. B. Scott Introd. Geol. xiii. 248 If two parallel dislocations hade toward each other, they form a trough fault and include a wedge-shaped fault block. 1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 292 At one point in the gorge a fault block had been turned through 90°. 1968 W. A. Price in R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 794 Fault-block origin for the Old Crow lakes is supported by the large square drainage patterns with which the lakes are associated. < as lemmas |
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