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Fault Scarp

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-010708

A feature caused by the rapid erosion of soft rock on the side of a fault (as compared to that of more resistant rock on the other side), for example, the east face of the Sierra Nevada in California.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-010708
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesFederal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-010708",
  "term": "Fault Scarp",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "A feature caused by the rapid erosion of soft rock on the side of a fault (as compared to that of more resistant rock on the other side), for example, the east face of the Sierra Nevada in California.",
  "references": [
    "Federal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/fault-scarp/"
}

Record 10,708 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.