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What is a reverse fault?

What is a reverse fault? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A type of fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
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Both steep and shallow-dipping reverse fault planes have been observed.
The black broken line indicates the reverse fault.
From the 31 stable solutions, 16 show reverse fault or oblique reverse fault characteristics, whereas 13 exhibit strike-slip mechanisms.
Main Zagros Reverse Fault is a structural boundary changes in depositional history, geography and seismicity has been proposed in the past.
The focal mechanism showed a reverse fault with a compression axis in a WNW-ESE direction.
In the north of the area towards the Main Zagros Reverse Fault, thrusts are dominant.

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