- sinistral fault
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Term for a strike-slip fault that shows left lateral movement.
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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
Fault (geology) — Part of a series on earthquakes Types Foreshock • Aftershock • Blind thrust Doublet • Interplate • … Wikipedia
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
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
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
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
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
White Wolf Fault — The White Wolf Fault is a fault in southern California, located north of the intersection of the San Andreas Fault and the Garlock Fault, and north of the Tehachapi Mountains. It is classed as a reverse (vertical motion) fault with a left lateral … 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
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