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"Slickensides"
Keywords:
striated
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polished
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fault
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lineated
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groves
Related Terms:
Fault
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Faulting
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Fault line
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Surface roughness
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Ripple
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Slump
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Footwall
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Striation
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Wavy
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Slumping
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Volcanic arc
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Hanging wall
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Disconformity
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Normal fault
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Outcrop
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Striations
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Thrust fault
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Ripple marks
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Anticline
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Syncline
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Grinding
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Abrasion
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Slide
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Thrust
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Striated
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Curl
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Angular unconformity
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Bedding plane
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Conchoidal fracture
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Reverse fault
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Shift
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Fold
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Profile
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Helictite
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Glacial polish
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Joint
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Extension
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Pipe
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Crater
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Roughness
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Fault zone
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Abrasion
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Undulated
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Abrasive wear
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Volcano
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Pebble
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Shear zone
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Nappe
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Flat
The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.
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a smooth surface created when two rock faces slide across each other
hq.nasa.gov
Rock faces that have been smoothed and scraped by rubbing against other rocks along a fault.
seismo.berkeley.edu
polished grooves on a fault surface resulting from abrasion along the fault plane.
lib.utexas.edu
The polished surface of a fault caused by slip on the fault; lineated slickensides also have groves that indicate the direction of fault movement.
wwnorton.com
Polished striated rock surfaces caused by one rock mass moving across another on a fault.
geo.tv
Striated or highly polished surfaces on hard rocks abraded during movement along a fault.
frankstehno.com
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Keywords:
derbyshire
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galena
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england
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variety
A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.
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