geological fault

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geological fault - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  geological fault
      n 1: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the
           displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they
           built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the
           faulting of the earth's crust" [syn: fault, faulting,
           geological fault, shift, fracture, break]