| 单词 | fault-line scarp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfault-line scarp fault-line scarp n. a scarp produced secondarily along a fault-line by erosion, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > steep cliffOE cleevec1300 hangingc1400 braea1500 steep1555 steepness1585 proclivity1645 upright1712 sliddera1793 snab1797 scarp1802 escarpment1815 shin1817 escarp1856 hag1868 jump-off1873 inface1896 fault-scarp1897 scarping1909 fault-line scarp1911 steephead1918 jump-up1927 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 622/1 The removal of the weak strata along one side of the fault line, leaving the harder strata on the other side in relief; such scarps are known as ‘fault-line scarps’. 1935 Geogr. Jrnl. 86 362 They may mistake fault-line scarps for fault scarps. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 349/2 A fault-line scarp..is a cliff that is subparallel to the fault trace, but is so modified by erosion that it does not reflect the fault plane in any way. < as lemmas |
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