fault line

English Thesaurus

1. (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface (noun.location)

hypernym	:	line,
definition	:	a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent (noun.location)

part meronym	:	break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift,
definition	:	(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other (noun.object)

domain category	:	geology,
definition	:	a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks (noun.cognition)