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fault line

noun as in line of rock displacement

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In addition to its million-and-a-half year dormant stretch, the fault line is nearly impossible to see from above.

The fault line was the dance, because there was no way he could do that in a prime ministerial manner.

That zone is a fault line, a crease in the planet floor between the North American plate and the Continental plate.

Section by section it has ruptured as though it were a pyric San Andreas fault line.

Iran is situated on a fault line and people are scared of a Fukushima type of situation happening.

There is, moreover, evidence of actual compression of the earth's crust at right angles to the fault-line.

"The fault line I mentioned is so obvious you can't miss it," he said to Joyce.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fault line, such as: rift, break, crack, fault, fault trace, and fault trend.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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