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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fault in which surfaces on opposite sides of the fault plane have moved horizontally and parallel to the strike of the fault.
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- noun geology A
fault where two blocks movehorizontally in opposite directions along thefault line .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally
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