sinistral strike-slip fault

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• Fault (geology) — Part of a series on earthquakes Types Foreshock • Aftershock • Blind thrust Doublet • Interplate • …   Wikipedia

• Sinistral and dextral — Not to be confused with Dexter and sinister. Sinistral and dextral are scientific terms that describe chirality (“handedness”) or relative direction in a number of disciplines. The terms are derived from the Latin words for “left” (sinister) and… …   Wikipedia

• sinistral fault — noun Term for a strike slip fault that shows left lateral movement …   Wiktionary

• sinistral — [ sɪnɪstr(ə)l] adjective 1》 of or on the left side or the left hand. The opposite of dextral.     ↘left handed. 2》 Geology relating to or denoting a strike slip fault in which the motion of the block on the further side of the fault is towards… …   English new terms dictionary

• Transform fault — (the red lines) A transform fault or transform boundary, also known as conservative plate boundary since these faults neither create nor destroy lithosphere, is a type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly horizontal in either sinistral …   Wikipedia

• Cochabamba Fault Zone — The Cochabamba Fault Zone or Cochabamba Shear Zone is a east southeast trending zone of sinistral strike slip faults near the city of Cochabamba in the Bolivian Andes. The movements along Cochabamba Fault Zone are related to the bend in the Andes …   Wikipedia

• Cwm Llwyd Fault — The Cwm Llwyd Fault is a fault in the Black Mountains of South Wales. It moved as a sinistral (left lateral) strike slip fault during the Variscan Orogeny. Together with the Llwyn Celyn Fault it formed a left stepping offset that created a pull… …   Wikipedia

• Ross Lake Fault — The 10 km wide Ross Lake fault system (RLFS) is part of a 500 km long zone of high angle faults in the northern Cordillera. The RLFS consists of two major sets of faults. The eastern set of the Hozameen and Slate Creek faults and more southerly… …   Wikipedia

• Great Glen Fault — The Great Glen Fault is a long strike slip (transcurrent) fault that runs through its namesake the Great Glen (Glen Albyn) in Scotland. However, the fault is actually much longer and over 400 million years old.LocationAligned northeast to… …   Wikipedia

• Olympic-Wallowa Lineament — Location of the Olympic Wallowa Lineament. Is the OWL an optical illusion? The Olympic Wallowa lineament (OWL) – first reported by cartographer Erwin Raisz in 1945 [1] on a relief map of the continental United States – is a physiographic feature… …   Wikipedia

• сброс горизонтального смещения — завернутый влево левый боковой — [http://slovarionline.ru/anglo russkiy slovar neftegazovoy promyishlennosti/] Тематики нефтегазовая промышленность Синонимы завернутый влеволевый боковой EN sinistral strike slip faultleft lateral strike… …   Справочник технического переводчика