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Sackung - What does it mean?

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sackung

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (geology) A large-scale landslide with a scarp that may be mistaken for a fault.
  • * 1985', G. Holmes and J. J. Jarvis, “Large-scale toppling within a '''sackung type deformation at Ben Attow, Scotland”, ''Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology , volume 18, number 3 (August 1985), pages 287–289.

    • References

    * McCalpin, J.P., 1999, Appendix A, p. A-122 to A-142 in Techniques for identifying faults and determining their origins, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR-5503.

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