strike-slip fault

1. 1.

   a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally

   Broaderfault

Questions about strike-slip fault

What does strike-slip fault mean?

strike-slip fault means "a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally".

Is strike-slip fault a common word?

strike-slip 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.