Vocabulary

This scheme specifies terms used to summarise the overall character of faults (ie, a summary of movement type and orientation) as defined by the IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information (CGI) Geoscience Terminology Working Group. Although the terms in this vocabulary are in common usage with definitions in standard texts or glossaries like Neuendorf et al. (2005), the definitions here attempt to establish unambiguous criteria to distinguish the categories, and are thus listed with this vocabulary as the source. By extension, this vocabulary includes all concepts in this conceptScheme, as well as concepts in any previous versions of the scheme. Designed for use in the faultType property in GeoSciML ShearDisplacementStructure elements.

• fault
  • extraction fault
    • mixed extraction fault
    • pure extraction fault
  • high angle fault
    • high angle normal fault
    • high angle reverse
    • wrench fault
  • low angle fault
    • horizontal fault
    • low angle normal fault
      • detachment fault
    • thrust fault
  • normal fault
    • high angle normal fault
    • low angle normal fault
      • detachment fault
  • oblique slip fault
    • left normal fault
    • left reverse fault
    • right normal fault
    • right reverse fault
  • reverse fault
    • high angle reverse
    • thrust fault
  • scissor fault
  • strike slip fault
    • dextral strike slip fault
    • sinistral strike slip fault
    • wrench fault