Feature Type

Feature Type Name

Fault

Synonyms

Definition

A fracture in earth materials, along which the opposite sides have been relatively displaced parallel to the plane of movement.

Comments

Australia adopts the Geoscience Australia "Geoscience Data Dictionary" for geological feature classes located on the web at: http://www.agso.gov.au/general/technotes/20011112_53.jsp

Table Name

FAULT

Australia's Implementation Table Names

  • FAULT_LN

The following have been used in the definition of this feature type

  • Lapidus, D.F. and Winstanley, I., COLLINS Dictionary of Geology, HarperCollins Publishers, 1990, UK.

The following have been used in categorising this feature type

  • Geology
Code Name Definition   Data type Values UoM Used by these Feature Types
1029 Certainty Undoubted fact Mandatory character(50)
label Definition
Approximate In the data capture process the feature was evident but its location was not entirely clear
Connector A line that is introduced for data completeness, e.g. a line used to close polygons, to represent missing data or data that is not visible.
Definite High level of confidence that the feature is correctly located.
Inferred In the data capture process the feature was not evident but the location of the feature was inferred
Interpolated The location of the feature was determined by interpolation
Unknown
  Types
1042 Dataset_Id An unique identifier of the dataset the feature belongs to Mandatory number(4)     Types
1072 Fault_Type A fill of any fault e.g. quartz Mandatory character(50)
label Definition
Normal A gravity fault at which the hanging wall has been depressed relative to the foot wall.
Other
Shear A fault produced by tangential stress which shears one part of a rock past its adjoining part, along a shear plane.
Thrust A type of reverse fault that is characterised by a low angle of inclination with reference to the horizontal plane.
Unknown
  Types
1150 Q_Info An unique identifier pointing to additional data quality information not included in the metadata record. Mandatory number(5)     Types