Sentences with phrase «major fault»

An excessively narrow head is major fault in both types.

While some types of feet are desired by owners of pedigree dogs because they match the breed standard, other types are highly undesirable because they are considered major faults.

It's smartly finished in the back, though, and few would otherwise find major fault with it.

A nearby minor fault, capable of generating only a small earthquake, may be more dangerous to a structure than a distant major fault.

These two major faults combined with minor flaws throughout the game just seem to add up in the end to make one frustrating game.

Some areas are known to be more earthquake prone than others because they lie on major fault lines such as the San Andreas Fault in California, and the Madrid Fault in Missouri, or the Wasatch Fault in Utah.

«Other major faults of the San Francisco Bay Areas, including Rodgers Creek, Northern Calaveras and Concord - Green Valley, also expect large earthquakes, and should expect significant afterslip, especially in locations where interseismic creep rates are high, and where faults cross deep sedimentary basins,» Lienkaemper added.

Finally, one that before the Fukushima fiasco might have been thought obvious; no plants should be built on major fault zones, on tsunami - prone coasts, on eroding seashores or those likely to be inundated before the plant has been decommissioned or any other places which are geologically unsafe.

«The High Plains are perplexing because there is no deformation — such as major faults or volcanic activity — in the area to explain how this big, vast area got elevated,» said lead author Craig Jones, a CIRES fellow and associate professor of geology at CU - Boulder.

We live quite near several major fault lines, so I try not to lean too many things:).

The Boxer has been around for a while now and appears to be generally reliable, with no particular major faults reported.

The only major fault here is that, occasionally, it does feel like repetitive territory for Alvarez.

The economic Battle Mountain — Cortez — Eureka Trend gold deposits were deposited as mineralized hydrothermal sedimentary - host replacement horizons and breccia zones along major fault structural zones where alteration and anomalous gold - silver - arsenic - antimony - thallium mineralization are present.

Only two other major faults presented themselves — namely the lack of a passenger vanity mirror (something so cheap and simple yet noticeable in its absence), and the fact that on this range - topping 5 door the rear windows are still manually operated.

A moderately compelling thriller about the potential perils of nuclear energy, whose major fault is an overweening sense of its own self - importance.

Not only can earthquakes have an impact far beyond major fault lines, some areas of the country — notably, parts of Oklahoma — are experiencing more seismic activity as a result of oil drilling efforts.

Earthquake risk associated with enhanced geothermal systems can be minimized by siting plants an appropriate distance away from major fault lines.

Iran sits astride major fault lines and is prone to frequent tremors.

Huntington sees major fault lines appearing between what we may call the earth's «civilization plates» — between the Muslim and Asian societies on the one hand and the West on the other.

One can think of these cultural definitions as fissures which, when subjected to stress, become major fault lines along which changes in religion take place.

Were shallow earthquakes to slide by the grinding and crunching of rock, as geologists once imagined, the process would generate enough heat so that major faults like the San Andreas would be a little warmer along their length than they would be otherwise.

The earthquake's epicenter was not on a known major fault, says Kevin McCue, an engineering seismologist at Australia's Central Queensland University in Rockhampton.

The hope is that data from the Chile project will provide some of the best insights yet into how major faults behave, and how stresses within them build up and resolve.

Several major faults rive these highlands, but much of Belize lies outside the tectonically active zone that underlies most of Central America.

CinemaBlend stated that Nintendo Switch would encounter different future on marketplace compared to the Wii but for sure it will not encounter the two major faults encountered by the previous console.

Provide reasoned diagnosis for major faults to assist in the selection of specialist repair / maintenance.

Seismologist Mark Petersen, who leads the USGS project mapping seismic risk in the United States, says that the agency is now updating its models of major faults in the Western United States based on the events in Japan.

The one major fault of Death Road to Canada is repetition, both at mission level and overall.

Aside from a few goofy design elements, the only major faults we found with were the car's limited standard stereo capabilities and sound quality, as well as its lack of Bluetooth integration.

Franklin McKinley district staff found several major faults with the Rocketship petition.

«The China Syndrome is a moderately compelling thriller about the potential perils of nuclear energy, whose major fault is an overweening sense of its own self - importance.

Not only can earthquakes have an impact far beyond major fault lines, some areas of the country — notably, parts of Oklahoma — are experiencing more seismic activity as a result of oil drilling efforts.

Kuyuk and Allen estimate 10 km is the ideal distance between seismic stations in areas along major faults or near major cities.

Followers do accept requests without complaint, and perform just as well as their counterparts, but the lack of independent thinking and leadership is a major fault when you look at your company from a distance.

«In Jesus Feminist Sarah Bessey writes with wit, wisdom and compassion about one of the major fault lines that runs through our churches and our world — the relationship between women and men.

The response to World Vision revealed some major fault lines in the Church, and many of us who grew up evangelical interpreted all the gleeful «farewelling» from evangelical leaders as our final kick out the door.

Its major fault is that it ignores the fact that liberalism arose in a specific historical framework, in response to both political and cultural shifts in Europe (the Reformation, the Wars of Religion, and the late - Medieval world order in general).

Today it is commonplace to point out that the major fault line within academic theology goes between conservatives and liberals rather than between different confessional traditions.

See the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for more info, our one major fault is that we do discriminate against christian Born Agains, for our own safety and sanity.

But Wenger is tactically naive, and has another major fault that is totally self destructive...... he always starts the season two players short of a league winning challenge.

I «ve tried to understand him, I «ve forgiven him and trusted him but I «ve decided the man has one major fault: He thinks he is immortal.

This is a major fault in his game.

His one major fault is that his end product can be inconsistent, but he doesn't have to be one of the main threats in the Chelsea side.

Without blaming each other, let's just admit there is major fault in our medical system if hospitals are not required to report on specific cause of death when women and babies die in childbirth.

The tuition fees issue has also been a test case of Scottish devolution, with the abolition of fees laying a major fault - line across the British HE system.

Briccetti pointed to Astorino's opposition to Common Core testing — which the Business Council supports — as a major fault in his efforts.

Many geological atlases chart the world's major faults and pinpoint where big quakes have struck in the last century or longer.