fault system
C35008
concept
A fault system is a network of related fractures in the Earth's crust along which movement has occurred, collectively accommodating and distributing tectonic strain.
Observed surface forms (6)
- fault zone ×8
- geologic fault zone ×2
- normal fault system ×2
- geologic fault system ×1
- major Himalayan fault system ×1
- thrust fault system ×1
Instances (21)
- Eastern Sierra Nevada frontal fault system via concept surface "fault zone"
- Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system
- Hunter Mountain–Saline Valley fault system
- Airport Lake fault zone via concept surface "fault zone"
- Little Lake fault zone via concept surface "fault zone"
- Lenwood–Lockhart–Old Woman Springs fault zone via concept surface "fault zone"
- Blackwater fault zone via concept surface "fault zone"
- Pisgah–Bullion–Mesquite Lake fault zone via concept surface "fault zone"
- Palu-Koro fault zone via concept surface "fault zone"
- Imperial Valley fault system
- Imperial Fault Zone via concept surface "geologic fault zone"
- New Madrid Seismic Zone margin structures
- Rocky Mountain fault system via concept surface "geologic fault system"
- Balcones Escarpment via concept surface "geologic fault zone"
- Ramapo Fault
- South Tibetan Detachment System via concept surface "normal fault system"
- MBT via concept surface "major Himalayan fault system"
- Ridgecrest fault system
- San Gorgonio Pass thrust fault system via concept surface "thrust fault system"
- Transverse Ranges fault system
- Elsinore Fault Zone via concept surface "fault zone"