- strike-slip
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noun
Usage: often attributive
Date: 1964
1. a fault about which movement is predominantly horizontal
2. a slipping movement along the strike of a fault <strike-slip earthquakes>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
strike-slip
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