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Term: Fault
Definition: A displacement in a glacier formed by ice fracturing without its walls separating. It can be recognized by the discordance of layers in the ice on either side of the fracture.
GCW Swisseduc
Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
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