tear fault
noun
: a fault occurring in the rocks above a low-angle thrust fault and striking approximately at right angles to the strike of the thrust fault
Word History
Etymology
tear entry 4
- fossicking
- fossicks
- fossiform
- fossil
- Fossil Butte National Monument
- fossil copal
- fossil flour
- fossil fuel
- fossil ivory
- fossil man
- fossil oil
- fossil ore
- fossil resin
- fossil turquoise
- fossil-fueled
- fossiliferous
- fossilification
- fossilify
- fossilisation
- fossilisations
- fossilise
- fossilised
- fossilises
- fossilising
- fossilist