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Definition of oblique fault

oblique fault
Fault Fault, n. 1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. 2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the fault plane. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a vertical fault; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a normal, or gravity, fault. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a reverse (or reversed), thrust, or overthrust, fault. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a horizontal fault. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the displacement; the vertical displacement is the throw; the horizontal displacement is the heave. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the trend of the fault. A fault is a strike fault when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a dip fault when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an oblique fault when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called cross faults. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called step faults and sometimes distributive faults.

Meaning of oblique fault from wikipedia

- horizontal, parallel to the fault trace; dip-slip, offset is predominantly vertical and/or perpendicular to the fault trace; or oblique-slip, combining strike-slip...
- continental transform faults, zones of oblique collision and the deforming foreland of zones of continental collision. When strike-slip fault zones develop,...
- Faults can be classified into four types based on the kind of motion between the separated rock m****es: normal, reverse, strike-slip, and oblique. While...
- A transform fault or transform boundary, is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal. It ends abruptly where it connects...
- of the island. The Great Sumatran fault zone accommodates most of the strike-slip motion ****ociated with the oblique convergence between the Indo-Australian...
- Sea plate. This left-lateral strike-slip fault extends NW-SE (N30 – 40 W) accommodating the lateral oblique motion of the subducting Philippine Sea plate...
- seismically-active faults in the North Island of New Zealand that carry much of the dextral (right lateral) strike-slip component of the oblique convergence...
- Island Fault (SWIF) Rogers Belt (Mount Vernon Fault/Granite Falls Fault Zone) Cherry Cr**** Fault Zone Rattlesnake Mountain Fault Zone Seattle Fault Tacoma...
- magnitude of 7 or higher. East Valley Fault The eastern segment, known as the East Valley Fault (EVF), moves in an oblique dextral motion. It extends about...
- including forearc slivers and strike slip fault systems that are sub-parallel to ocean trenches. In addition, oblique subduction is ****ociated with the closure...