NOUN
- (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface
How To Use fault line In A Sentence
- It is a fault line where a basaltic oceanic plate grinds against a continental plate and dives into the hot core of the earth - a subduction zone.
- To select the fault line and locate the fault point quickly is of great importance for isolating the fault line, as well as improving the operation reliability and reducing the economic loss.
- I have always thought that these were earth generated lights as a fault line runs directly beneath these light formations.
- These issues have created a stark fault line within the Peace Process.
- This constructed fault line forms an intimate civic space that connects the different programs.
- Going further along those lines, I expect that the unwillingness to 'scientifically' explore the intuitional side – which is a feature of modern Western not shared by traditional Eastern philosophical traditions btw – from which we have a modern science that seemingly eschews the verse of intuition for the pure prose of fact-based veracity, is a core fault, or fallacy, indeed ongoing fault line. A Materialist Red Herring
- It is rich with birdlife and wildlife and fault lines are evident. The Sun
- There are other fault lines that traverse the earth. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
- Surveyors say the fault line is capable of generating a major earthquake once in a hundred years.
- They lie on a fault line created by a seam of greensand, which runs for 200 miles from Lyme Regis to the Wash, taking in the edge of the Bowood Estate.