The many kilometers of visible fault breaks on the surface of the earth presented scientists with opportunities for field investigations that ultimately lead to an improved understanding of the fault scarps that earthquakes often generate.
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The surface of the layered plateau is known as Bishop Tuff and features fumarole mounds and hundreds of north-south oriented fault scarps, many of which are visible on topographic maps, via aerial photography, and satellite imagery.
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In the case of old eroded fault scarps, active erosion may have moved the physical cliff back away from the actual fault location which may be buried beneath a talus, alluvial fan or the sediments of the valley fill.
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The soils in the area of the fault scarp benefit from fertile loess deposits whilst, in places, there are steep rock faces on the scarp slopes which are a result of erosion and which are now classified as natural monuments and biotopes.
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Characteristic of the Azorean geological history is a range of diverse features that includes ( but is not limited to ) volcanoes, calderas, lakes, lava fields, fumaroles, hot springs and thermal waters, volcanic caves, " faj�s ", fault scarps and marine fossil deposits.
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Bruce Bolt, a seismologist and a professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley, walked the length of the fault scarp in 1992 and found that the vertical displacement measured along most of the length with the southwest end reaching.
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The third and largest great fault scarp in the valley is called the Golden Fleece Terrace ( named Te Kapua by the Mori people, meaning The Cloud ), which is five metres high and 40 metres long, with a beautiful white crystal-like sinter coating.
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Fault scarps may be only a few centimeters or many meters high . " Fault-line scarps " are coincident with faults, but are most typically formed by the erosion of weaker rocks that have been brought alongside more resistant ones by the movement along the fault.
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They are fault scarps, rising 500 to 600 m higher than the lake or river, running from the Batoka Gorge roughly 800 km to the lower Zambezi, and facing each other about 50 to 100 km apart, closer in the west and opening up in the east.
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According to a study carried out by the scientists and geologists of the Geological Survey of Azerbaijan, analyses of four samples taken from Yanar Dag revealed that the area of maximum flux was situated at the upper side of the fault scarp-the very area from which the flames emanate.
