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fault scarps

fault scarps is the plural of fault scarp.

Meaning of fault scarp

Noun

fault scarp (plural fault scarps)

  1. A step-like feature formed by the slippage of a short section of the surface along a fault line.

Questions about fault scarps

What is fault scarps the plural of?
Fault scarps is the plural of fault scarp.

Words near fault scarps in the dictionary

  1. fault line
  2. fault lines
  3. fault plane
  4. fault planes
  5. fault scarp
  6. fault scarps
  7. fault tolerance
  8. fault tolerances
  9. fault trace
  10. fault traces
  11. fault tree

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fault scarps (page history and authors); fault scarp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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