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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
WHEN a bedding-surface is faulted, a large number of quantities, of more or less significance, may be considered.
The elements involved are: (1) the fault-surface, (2) the net relative movement along it, (3) the bedding-surface, and (4) the surface of outcrop or measurement.
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page 389 note 1 In referring to these three lengths in a general way, the terms AX, AY, and AZ will be used here.Google Scholar
page 389 note 2 pp. 127–8.Google Scholar
page 390 note 1 Cf. Geologic Structures, fig. 78, p. 148.Google Scholar
page 391 note 1 Although Leith, C. K. in his authoritative work Structural Geology (revised edition, 1923, 66) expressly defines “throw” as “net vertical displacement … the vertical component” [of movement]—i.e. as the length AX. The present writer has also defined it as such (in J. Platt and J. Challinor, Simple Geological Structures, 1930, 23).Google Scholar
page 392 note 1 Bailey, E. B., Geol. Mag., LXVII, 1930, 86.Google Scholar
page 392 note 2 Geol. Mag., LXVI, 1929, 354.Google Scholar
