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Natural environment
Related to any physical feature of the earth's natural environment.
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dip
Natural environment; Earthquake
The angle of a fault or other planar geologic feature relative to horizontal.
dip-slip fault
Natural environment; Earthquake
A fault with the major component of relative displacement along the direction of dip of the fault.
horst
Natural environment; Earthquake
An elongated block of the earth's crust uplifted relative to surrounding rocks along bounding faults.
displacement
Natural environment; Earthquake
The difference between the initial position of a reference point and a later position. In geology it is the permanent offset of a reference point across a fault.
hot spot
Natural environment; Earthquake
A volcanic center, 100 to 200 km across and persistent for at least a few tens of millions of years, that is thought to be the surface expression of a rising plume of hot mantle ...
ductile deformation
Natural environment; Earthquake
Behavior in which rocks, at a critical stress, do not rupture but instead become permanently deformed by flowing.
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