Faulting

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1. Verb form

of Fault

2. Noun

The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.

3. Noun

(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
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