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Bilingual glossary of geology


Strike  Direction
The compass direction of a horizontal line formed by the intersection of a horizontal plane and a planar feature of a rock (eg. bedding plane, foliation). By convention, the direction of this imaginary horizontal line is determined following the right-hand rule.

Themes:
  Structural geology

Related words:
  Dip


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