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United States Bureau of Mines
Industry: Mining
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources. Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
A fault with a dip greater than 45 degrees . Compare: low-angle fault.
Industry:Mining
A fault with a dip of 45 degrees or less. Compare: high-angle fault.
Industry:Mining
A fault with a surface that is planar rather than curved.
Industry:Mining
A fault, generally a normal fault, that bounds a graben or other structural depression.
Industry:Mining
A fault, usually a thrust fault, that has been slightly folded.
Industry:Mining
A fault.
Industry:Mining
A fault-line scarp in which the structurally downthrown block is also topographically lower than the upthrown block. Compare: obsequent fault-line scarp.
Industry:Mining
A feather-ore variety of jamesonite or boulangerite; also called feather ore. Also spelled plumites, plumosite.
Industry:Mining
A feathery variety of jamesonite or boulangerite.
Industry:Mining
A feathery variety of jamesonite.
Industry:Mining
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