This prominent lunar lobate thrust fault scarp is one of thousands discovered in Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) images. The fault scarp or cliff is like a stair-step in the lunar landscape ...

The fault scarp found on the ocean floor is nearly vertical. Its height is the equivalent to a seven- or eight-story building, which is considered exceptionally large.

This vertical cliff consists of soft mud deposited on the Japan Trench bottom and was uplifted ~60 m by the 2011 megaquake. This was the first time that the fault scarp of a trench-type earthquake ...

An active fault, marked at ground-level by a ridge or escarpment called a fault scarp, has caused three successive ruptures, moving the Earth's surface upward by 1.8 meters (about 6 feet), over ...

News Pacific NW Montana geologist finds new Bitterroot fault line Sept. 24, 2017 Updated Sun., Sept. 24, 2017 at 10:52 p.m. X Email Reddit ...

The eastern prong of the southern Rocky Mountain province in New Mexico, called the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is usually described as a great anticlinal structure. Its eastern border and general ...

This paper discusses: (1) an 18-mile section of the Wasatch Front Range east of Salt Lake City, (a) The Wasatch fault is an initial fault-scarp modified by erosion and not a fault-line scarp, (b) The ...

Crucially, they observed that glacial landforms 2.6 million years in age are laterally offset across the fault scarp by 1,000 m. Others, 132,000 years old, are laterally offset by 75 m.