geological fault

Questions about geological fault

What does geological fault mean?

geological fault means "(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other".

What is another word for geological fault?

Close synonyms include fault, faulting, shift, fracture, break. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is geological fault a common word?

geological fault is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.