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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The mass of rock overlying a mineral deposit in a mine.
- noun The overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.
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- noun geology The section of rock that extends above a diagonal
fault line (the corresponding lower section being thefootwall ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the upper wall of an inclined fault
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