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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A differential or compound fault produced, during folding, by the sliding upon one another of several adjacent beds or strata. Each component movement is called a lag-fault. J. E. Marr, in Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc., 1906, p. lxxvi.

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