I would appreciate advice on choosing generic terms to help describe an originally plane surface that is transected by a cross-cutting network of normal and reverse faults. The original two-dimensional surface could be a widespread bedding plane, also a peneplain that is significantly disrupted within a definite area.
One term is needed to refer to the dip of individual fault blocks but dip is hardly appropriate when applied to the eroded surface of a peneplain. Perhaps incline could be used.
A second term is required to refer to the individual fault blocks. I considered fractiplat from Gk. broken plane, which seems better than a platoclasm, from Gk. plane broken, although the latter could possibly serve as a collective term for the disrupted area.
I do have an application in mind for these precise neologisms. Any comments or suggestions would be warmly welcome.
Malcolm.
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