| NOUN | object | inclined fault | a geological fault in which one side is above the other |
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| Meaning | A geological fault in which one side is above the other. | |
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| Parts | footwall | The lower wall of an inclined fault |
| hanging wall | The upper wall of an inclined fault | |
| Narrower | normal fault, gravity fault, common fault | An inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall |
| thrust fault, overthrust fault, reverse fault | A geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression | |
| Broader | fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other |
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