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What is a strike-slip fault?

What is a strike-slip fault? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A fault where two blocks move horizontally in opposite directions along the fault line.
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In southwestern British Columbia, the Fraser Canyon is eroded along the trace of a north-south oriented strike-slip fault whose west side moved north 130 km relative to the east side between 47 and 35 million years ago.
In conclusion, the geological characteristics of the South China Sea cannot be explained by a pull-apart model involving a releasing bend of a sinistral strike-slip fault.
The quake occurred along a strike-slip fault, where two plates grind against each other in opposite directions.
The Murzinka-Adui Metamorphic Complex to the SE of the Salda Complex is separated from the latter by the Petrokamensk Arc and the Sisert dextral strike-slip fault.
Lake Toba's basin is contained in a strike-slip fault belt along the entire length of the Barisan Mountains of Sumatra.
In plate tectonics, a transform fault is a strike-slip fault extending throughout the lithosphere and joining any two other plate margins.

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