Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Faulting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Faulting \Fault"ing\, n. (Geol.)
The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which
a fault is produced.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fault \Fault\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Faulted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Faulting}.]
1. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to
blame. [Obs.]
For that I will not fault thee. --Old Song.
2. (Geol.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by
displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in
the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
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