0 present participle of fault
2 to hit a fault in tennis and other similar games:
That's the fourth serve he's faulted on today.
The rise of felsic magma to a high level in the crust without degassing or neutralization of the melt volatile phase suggests deep faulting.
The southwestern boundaries, in contrast to the previously defined margins, yield no evidence for postsedimentary faulting.
Syn-sedimentary faulting is also suggested by thickness changes of layers across faults.
The transition from brittle faulting to cataclastic flow in porous sandstone: mechanical definition.
The syn-rift sediments were sealed by a regionally correlated ignimbrite that in turn was offset by late second-phase faulting.
However, this contrast was not necessarily achieved by normal faulting alone.
Uncertainties in the scale of faulting between the sampling sites prevents more detailed appraisal of the stratigraphic relations.
Extensional faulting created local accommodation space for the redeposition of material and focussed clastic supply routes into the basin at transfer zones.
