| format: | application/rdf+xml |
| identifier: | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifierscheme/cgi/201012/faulttype |
| language: | en |
| title: | CGI fault type categories |
| creator: | Concept Definition Task Group of IUGS CGI Interoperability Working Group (http://www.cgi-iugs.org/tech_collaboration/interoperability_working_group.html) |
| publisher: | Concept Definition Task Group of IUGS CGI Interoperability Working Group (http://www.cgi-iugs.org/tech_collaboration/interoperability_working_group.html) |
| historyNote: | 2010-02-11 Add narrower relationship links by adding skos:narrower link in Protege, defining skos:narrower as inverse of skos:broader, calculating with Pellet reasoner to add inferred axioms, and using 'file/Export inferred axioms as ontology' in Protege. |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0001 |
| Preferred label (en) | Detachment fault |
| Definition (en) | A regional-scale, large displacement, low-angle normal fault. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0012 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0002 |
| Preferred label (en) | Dextral strike slip fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault with right-lateral strike-parallel displacement component of slip vector more than 10 times the dip-parallel component of the slip vector at at least one location along the fault, and right-lateral displacement over more than half the mapped trace of the fault. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0022 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0003 |
| Preferred label (en) | Extraction fault |
| Definition () | A fault whose two sides have approached each other substantially in the direction perpendicular to the fault. |
| Source () | Froitzheim, N., Pleuger, J. & Nagel, T.J., 2006. Extraction faults. Journal of Structural Geology v28, pp. 1388-1395. |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0004 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0013 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0016 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0004 |
| Preferred label (en) | Fault |
| Definition (en) | A discrete surface, or zone of discrete surfaces, with some thickness, separating two rock masses across which one mass has slid past the other and characterized by brittle deformation. |
| Relationships: | |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0003 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0005 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0011 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0014 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0015 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0017 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0020 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0022 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0005 |
| Preferred label (en) | High-angle fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault that dips at least 45 degrees over more than half of its recognized extent, for which slip or separation is not explicitly specified. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0004 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0006 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0007 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0024 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0006 |
| Preferred label (en) | High-angle normal fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault that dips at least 45 degrees over more than half of the recognized extent of the fault with the hanging wall displaced from a structurally higher position relative to footwall rocks. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0005 |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0014 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0007 |
| Preferred label (en) | High angle reverse |
| Definition (en) | Reverse fault that dips at least 45 degrees over more than half of its recognized extent, for which slip or separation is not explicitly specified. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0005 |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0017 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0008 |
| Preferred label (en) | Horizontal fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault that dips less than 10 degrees over more than half the recognized extent of the fault. |
| Source () | GGIC vocabularies working group (Australia) |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0011 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0009 |
| Preferred label (en) | Left normal fault |
| Definition (en) | High angle fault with slip vector that has ratio of strike-parallel to dip-parallel displacement between 10 to 1 and 1 to 10 at at least one location along the mapped trace, with left-lateral strike-parallel component and normal dip-parallel component over at least half the mapped trace of the fault. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0015 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0010 |
| Preferred label (en) | Left reverse fault |
| Definition (en) | High angle fault with slip vector that has ratio of strike-parallel to dip-parallel displacement between 10 to 1 and 1 to 10 at at least one location along the mapped trace, with left-lateral strike-parallel component and reverse dip-parallel component over at least half the mapped trace of the fault. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0015 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0011 |
| Preferred label (en) | Low angle fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault that dips less than 45 degrees over more than half of the recognized extent of the fault. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0004 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0008 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0012 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0023 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0012 |
| Preferred label (en) | Low-angle normal fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault that dips less than 45 degrees over more than half of the recognized extent of the fault with the hanging wall displaced from a structurally higher position relative to footwall rocks. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0011 |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0014 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0001 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0013 |
| Preferred label (en) | Mixed extraction fault |
| Definition (en) | An extraction fault with some displacement within the fault plane. |
| Source () | Froitzheim, N., Pleuger, J. & Nagel, T.J., 2006. Extraction faults. Journal of Structural Geology v28, pp. 1388-1395. |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0003 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0014 |
| Preferred label (en) | Normal fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault with dip-parallel displacement component of slip vector more than 10 times the strike-parallel component of the slip vector over more than half recognized extent of the fault, and for which the fault dips consistently in the same direction, and for which the hanging wall has been displaced down relative to the footwall. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0004 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0006 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0012 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0015 |
| Preferred label (en) | Oblique slip fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault with slip vector that has ratio of strike-parallel to dip-parallel displacement between 10 to 1 and 1 to 10 at at least one location along the mapped trace of the fault. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0004 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0009 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0010 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0018 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0019 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0016 |
| Preferred label (en) | Pure extraction fault |
| Definition (en) | An extraction fault with no discernible displacement within the fault plane. |
| Source () | Froitzheim, N., Pleuger, J. & Nagel, T.J., 2006. Extraction faults. Journal of Structural Geology v28, pp. 1388-1395. |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0003 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0017 |
| Preferred label (en) | Reverse fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault with dip-parallel displacement component of slip vector more than 10 times the strike-parallel component of the slip vector at at least one location along the mapped trace of the fault, and the fault dips consistently in the same direction with the hanging wall displaced up relative to the footwall over at least half the mapped trace of the fault. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0004 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0007 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0023 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0018 |
| Preferred label (en) | Right normal fault |
| Definition (en) | High angle fault with slip vector that has ratio of strike-parallel to dip-parallel displacement between 10 to 1 and 1 to 10 at at least one location along the mapped trace, with right-lateral strike-parallel component and normal dip-parallel component of slip over at least half the mapped trace of the fault |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0015 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0019 |
| Preferred label (en) | Right reverse fault |
| Definition (en) | High angle fault with slip vector that has ratio of strike-parallel to dip-parallel displacement between 10 to 1 and 1 to 10 at at least one location along the mapped trace, with a right-lateral strike-parallel component and reverse dip-parallel component of slip over at least half the mapped trace of the fault. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0015 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0020 |
| Preferred label (en) | Scissor fault |
| Definition (en) | A fault on which there is increasing offset or separation along the strike from an initial point of no offset, with the opposite sense of offset in the opposite direction. |
| Source () | Neuendorf et al 2005 |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0004 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0021 |
| Preferred label (en) | Sinistral strike slip fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault with left-lateral strike-parallel displacement component of slip vector more than 10 times the dip-parallel component of the slip vector at at least one location along the fault, and left-lateral displacement over more than half the mapped trace of the fault. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0022 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0022 |
| Preferred label (en) | Strike slip fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault with strike-parallel displacement component of slip vector more than 10 times the dip-parallel component of the slip vector at at least one location along the mapped trace of the fault. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0004 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0002 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0021 |
| Narrower | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0024 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0023 |
| Preferred label (en) | Thrust fault |
| Definition (en) | Fault that dips less than 45 degrees over more than half of the recognized extent of the fault, with a hanging wall displaced from a structurally deeper position relative to footwall rocks. |
| Source (en) | this vocabulary |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0011 |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0017 |
| Notes: |
| URI | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0024 |
| Preferred label (en) | Wrench fault |
| Definition (en) | A strike slip fault in which the fault plane dips at least 45 degrees over more than half of the recognized extent of the fault. |
| Source () | GGIC vocabularies working group (Australia) |
| Relationships: | |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0005 |
| Broader | http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/faulttype/0022 |
| Notes: |
| URI | |
| Preferred label (en) | Fault Type Categories |
| Relationships: | |
| Notes: |