From Virginia far into Alabama the great Appalachian valley was opened to a width in places of fifty miles and more, along a belt of intensely folded and faulted strata where once was the heart of the Appalachian Mountains.
The faulted region may be old enough to have been baseleveled, or the rocks on both sides of the line of dislocation may be alike in their resistance to erosion and therefore have been worn down to a common slope.
His part, though often faulted by those who can see but one thing at a time, materially aids the completeness of the work, in giving us a fuller view both of Jessica and of her father.
This freedom, however, was inseparable from the governing idea of the piece, nor can it be faulted but upon such grounds as would exclude all dramatized fiction from the stage.
The sedimentary rocks are bent and faulted in lines parallel to the main axis, and also to the chains of volcanic mountains, and the observation holds good with regard to different geological periods.
The strata were flexured, folded, and often faulted and fissured along lines ranging north and south, the great fault of the Jordan-Arabah valley being the most important.
An earthquake due to the sudden slip offaulted strata.
The southern Mesozoic zone is absent, and the Palaeozoic zone sinks abruptly in a series of faulted steps to the plain of the Kura, beneath which no doubt the continuation of the Mesozoic zone is concealed.
Here, the Lower Member of the Wasatch Formation on the west is faulted against the Main Body on the east (USDI 1964).
As will be seen in the discussion of the structure of the Fossil Basin, all of the rocks beneath the Evanston Formation are folded and faulted and within the monument are buried by deposits of Tertiary age.
Some bosses have broken and faulted the overlying beds; some have forced the rocks aside and melted them away.
This is so much the more true because nearly all complexly folded orfaulted rock masses are to be found in mountainous, or at least in hilly regions.
The entire country is, moreover, faulted in the most intricate fashion into many rift valleys.
Another type of lake basin which has its origin in faulted block movements is known as the rift-valley lake, and is best exemplified by the great lakes of east Central Africa.
It is not necessary in all cases to assume that the block mountains of a faulted district represent the blocks which in the adjustments were left the highest.
The valley of the Jordan, with the mountains of Lebanon rising above it, is near the northern extremity of this faulted mountain region (Fig.
The chief interest of either class consists in their effect upon the outcrops of the faulted strata, after erosion has removed the escarpment produced by the dislocation.
The fragments of the various beds are then strung along the fault in the direction of the slipping, and this circumstance has been made use of in tracing the continuation of faulted beds of coal.
Others have been faulted up and again exposed by erosion; but since being uncovered, steep slopes and rapid erosion have apparently favored the scattering of the copper rather than its concentration and enrichment.
The deposits of the Hunan Province of southern China occur as seams, pockets, and bunches of stibnite ore in gently undulating beds of faulted and fissured dolomitic limestone.
All decidedly folded mountainous tracts older than the Cretaceous; exceptions, domed and block-faulted mountains.
Often they are faulted and folded and mashed to such an extent that it is difficult to go behind the superposed structural features to the original conditions in order to work out the geologic history.
The tracing of a folded or faulted vein, in a particularly complex system of veins, requires application of all of the methods and principles of structural geology.
The Leadville ores occur as replacements and vein-fillings in a gently faulted and folded Carboniferous limestone, in deposits of a general tabular shape, parallel to the bedding but with very irregular lower surfaces.
The other, to the south, is the Basin and Range Province which extends into Mexico, and is characterized by a wide variety of complexly folded and faulted rocks.
The diversified sedimentary series is folded andfaulted on a large scale with broad structural undulations visible for miles along the abrupt valley walls.
Upon their uneven upper surfaces are several thousand feet of red sandstones and conglomerates, which are both folded and faulted with the underlying quartzites.
You doubtless noticed on the shore that the deep-lying metamorphic crystals have been exposed by erosion, leaving on the upper levels faulted strata of tilted lava-sheets interstratified with pudding-stone.
Concealing our find under our taa-taa we scraped and slid over the faulted and tilted strata to which Whinney had referred until we reached the beach.
In middle Tertiary time these strata were subjected to a mountain-making force of compression and more or less folded, faulted (fractured), and uplifted into the Coast Range Mountains.
After the last igneous activity all the rocks were somewhat folded and notably faulted in many places.
Some portions of the range were intensely folded and faulted and upraised many thousands of feet, while other portions were only moderately folded and uplifted.
Why, it was this very thing for which Luther is faulted by Rome, the Law as an instrument for obtaining righteousness before God.
Pearson was so surprised and angered that he double-faulted for deuce, and Johnson won the game.
Further proof of the colossal compression to which the rocks have been subjected is afforded by their intense crumpling and corrugation, and by the abundantlyfaulted and crushed condition to which they have been reduced.
It is in a great mountain-chain that the extraordinary complication of plicated and faulted structures in the crust of the earth can be most impressively beheld.
It is not much of a lie--an' I had meddled with the Greek at all, I had not faulted simply thrice, but forty times.
I've never faultedthe ideals they claim, or their courage--just their methods and their real morals.
And, Shannon thought smugly, he couldn't possibly be faulted for being an innocent victim.
No one could be faulted for not taking part, but that shouldn't be because of a correctable disability; it should be either voluntary, or because of permanent disability like her own.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faulted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
