"parallel" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Rock and Pillars are a horst range, caused by movement on two parallel faults uplifting the area in between.
- Straight rilles follow long, linear paths and are believed to be grabens, sections of the crust that have sunk between two parallel faults.
- The basin is a graben (a downdropped block which subsided between parallel faults).
- In geology, a graben is a depressed block of land bordered by parallel faults.
- Graben are produced from parallel normal faults, where the hanging wall is downthrown and the footwall is upthrown.
- A number of parallel faults still runs roughly parallel with the coast, having formed during the Gondwanaland rifting when South America separated from Africa.
- There is major fumarolic activity, located on parallel faults, some with 100-m uplifts.
- In early October, there was a cluster of small earthquakes near Paso Robles near a parallel fault to the west.
- Where segments share relative plate motion with parallel faults, the slip rate is less than it would otherwise be.
- A fault block mountain is a mountain or range formed as a horst when it was elevated between parallel normal faults.
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