Examples of 'fault zone' in a sentence

Meaning of "fault zone"

A fault zone refers to an area of the Earth's crust where there is a concentration of faults, which are fractures or breaks in the rocks. These fault zones occur due to tectonic activity and can result in earthquakes or other geological phenomena. In such zones, the rocks are highly fractured and distorted, making them susceptible to movement and deformation

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Take a convenient fault zone of set of them.
This article is about the fault zone.
This major fault zone is accompanied by a chain of volcanic systems.
We have continuing seismic activity in the fault zone.
The source of the water was a fractured fault zone with a particularly malicious configuration.
These rocks came from a series of pyroclastic eruptions originating in a fault zone.
In the case of an industrial installation the fault zone would be fed with a riser.
Jurassic rocks are developed at the bottom of the platform cover in the fault zone.
Brittle fault zone intersection between the chosen pilot holes were also modelled.
The energy will fracture every active fault zone in the country.
This fault zone is a prolongation of the Mareuil anticline.
This topography is a result of the significant component of reverse displacement on this fault zone.
Mysterious tectonic fault zone found off California.
This indicates that there is no significant current threat from ruptures along this fault zone.
To the southeast it also changes into a fault zone running from Terrasson to Meyssac.

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International drilling expedition to probe Japanese fault zone.
Granulites exhumed in the fault zone suggest that it could be a Iithospheric scale fault.
And the island sits just next to the Cascadia fault zone.
This fault zone is entirely hidden beneath the deep alluvial deposits of the Mississippi embayment.
Much of that segment of the river runs through the Brevard fault zone.
The nearby Humboldt Fault Zone in particular poses a threat to the city.
The trench turns west north of the Tonga Plate and becomes a transform fault zone.
The fault zone is very ancient and initially formed during the Proterozoic Eon.
Research on the Uemachi fault zone.
The fault zone has been associated with the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone.
That earthquake ruptured a segment of the San Fernando fault zone.
The Moab fault zone.
The ridge is associated with the seismically active Humboldt Fault zone.
San Andreas fault zone.
Many seismologists refer to the active segment as the Mendocino Fault or Mendocino fault zone.
San Fernando fault zone.
The New Madrid fault zone and San Andreas fault are a couple of examples.
The Primorsky fault zone.
Most seismicity recorded in this area occurred on or near the Explorer Transform Fault Zone.
The Walton fault zone.
This location is about a mile from the Hayward Fault Zone.
The Kandi fault zone.
It represents a self-organizing system within a fault zone.
In Japan, another fault zone millions live with the same uncertainty.
East African fault zone.
The deposit is situated on the western edge of the Gera-Jachymov fault zone.
The Foumban fault zone.
The two different rock zones are separated by the Finch-Langdon fault zone.
This fault zone has been active in the Holocene with a left-lateral offset.
Outside of this protected area, the fault zone is less visible.
Described how seismic shock is transformed into the hydraulic impact within fluid-saturated fault zone.
When that offshore fault zone eventually gives way, we get the damaging Big One.
Most likely, the rest of the energy was converted into heat in the fault zone.
Since the big quake of the Middle Ages, the fault zone has been relatively quiet.
The fault zone likely exerts control on the location of Mount St. Helens volcano.

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