Fault scarp
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A fault scarp is a small step-like offset of the ground surface in which one side of a fault has shifted vertically in relation to the other. The topographic expression of fault scarps results from th
This fault scarp was created by the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake. The photo was taken August 19, 1959.
Fault Line Scarp
Borah 1983
1983 Borah Peak earthquake
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The 1983 Borah Peak earthquake occurred on October 28, at 8:06:09 a.m. MDT in the western United States, in the Lost River Range at Borah Peak in central Idaho.
Fault scarp
…from the Gobi Desert of Mongolia (left) and at Borah Peak in Idaho. The latter fault scarp (white line at the base of the tan hills) was formed in the 1983 Borah Peak earthquake A fault scarp is a small step-like offset of the ground surface in which one side of a fault has shifted vertically in relation to the other. The…
A segment of the Borah Peak earthquake fault scarp near Willow Creek
Fault scarps that outline the graben produced near Willow Creek
Crater caused by an artesian fountain