From Dr. Bill's link: Faults can be divided into two major categories: Strike-slip and Dip-slip, which describes the displacement of rock across the fault. There are also oblique-slip faults that are in-between strike-slip and dip-slip.

I know a few dip-slips myself! nobody on this board, just a joke in general, couldn't resist the wordplay

Thanks for the great link, Dr. Bill. Good illustrations.

And thanks for referring me back to that thread, stales. I missed that one (actually I missed all of October, and couldn't catch up with it all when I got back). Your first post there is a fine study of subduction.

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I guess this is the kind of word you can bequeath a variety of extended meanings to...which ones stick, and which go away?



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