BLOCK FAULTING Definition & Meaning

block faulting

noun

Geology.

the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.

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Origin of block faulting¹

First recorded in 1920–25

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When our University of Washington colleague met with some of our Chinese collaborators in Chengdu yesterday, he floated our ideas about a combination of loess flows and block faulting forming the local terraces.

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