دیکشنری تخصصی مهندسی نفت - نسخه آنلاین

the vertical displacement of a fault along the dip plane.

n: a fault in which the slip is practically in the line of the fault dip.

n: a dip-slip fault along which the hanging wall has subsided relative to the footwall.

a fault with mostly vertical movement.

n: a dip-slip fault along which the hanging wall has moved upward relative to the footwall. Also called a thrust fault.

n: horizontal displacement along a fault plane. The San Andreas fault in California is a strike-slip fault.

a tectonically induced failure of a section of a formation with the result that one block of the formation moves horizontally to the formation.