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A species that can occur both in wetlands and uplands.
- Browse Related Terms: Aquatic opportunists, Big game, Ecotones, Extirpation, Facultative wetland vegetation species, Fire-tolerant species, Flats wetland, Habitat alteration, Invasive species, Lek, Megafauna, Nongame species, Scarify, Species of Special Concern, Translocation
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Direction that water flows down a hill.
- Browse Related Terms: Cone of depression, Ephemeral stream, Fall Line, Flood irrigation, Perennial streams, Phreatophytes, Piezometer, Spring, Sprinkler system
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- See Alluvial fan
- Browse Related Terms: Alluvial fan, Alluvian fan terrace, Bajada, Debris flow fans, Desert bench, Fan, Fan apron, Fan piedmont, Fan remnant, Fan terrace, Inset fans, Lahar, Skirt (fan, dune)
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- A sloping alluvial fan surface made of sediment deposited by streams at the mouth of a canyon between a mountain and the adjacent alluvial valley floor. See also Alluvian fan
- Browse Related Terms: Alluvial fan, Alluvian fan terrace, Bajada, Debris flow fans, Desert bench, Fan, Fan apron, Fan piedmont, Fan remnant, Fan terrace, Inset fans, Lahar, Skirt (fan, dune)
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A sloping alluvial fan surface made of sediment deposited by streams at the mouth of a canyon between a mountain and the adjacent alluvial valley floor.
- Browse Related Terms: Alluvial fan, Alluvian fan terrace, Bajada, Debris flow fans, Desert bench, Fan, Fan apron, Fan piedmont, Fan remnant, Fan terrace, Inset fans, Lahar, Skirt (fan, dune)
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An erosional remnant (or fossil) of a once active and more extensive alluvial fan.
- Browse Related Terms: Alluvial fan, Alluvian fan terrace, Bajada, Debris flow fans, Desert bench, Fan, Fan apron, Fan piedmont, Fan remnant, Fan terrace, Inset fans, Lahar, Skirt (fan, dune)
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- See Alluvial fan terrace
- Browse Related Terms: Alluvial fan, Alluvian fan terrace, Bajada, Debris flow fans, Desert bench, Fan, Fan apron, Fan piedmont, Fan remnant, Fan terrace, Inset fans, Lahar, Skirt (fan, dune)
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Projects on public land for which the environmental review and public participation process is underway and the application could be approved by December 2010.
- Browse Related Terms: Appropriation Doctrine, Augmentation Plan, Beneficial use of water, Domestic water use, Entry, Fast-track, Incidental take permit, Irrigation, Reclamation withdrawal, Regular-track proposals, Reserved Water Right, Safe Drinking Water Act (SWDA)
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- A fracture along which blocks of the Earth's crust on either side have moved relative to one another. See also strike-slip fault; potentially active fault; zoned fault
- Browse Related Terms: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, Creep (rate), Edge habitat, fault, Fault block, Fault plane, Fault trace, Fault, left-lateral, Fault, potentially active, Fault, right-lateral, Fault, transform, Fault, zoned, Half-graben, Left-lateral fault, Potentially Active Fault, Right-lateral fault, SLIP, Strike-slip fault, Surface expression, Surface rupture, Transform fault, Unfaulted, Zoned fault
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A rock mass that is bounded by normal faults. Fault blocks on either side of the fault are elevated or depressed, relative to each other.
- Browse Related Terms: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, Creep (rate), Edge habitat, fault, Fault block, Fault plane, Fault trace, Fault, left-lateral, Fault, potentially active, Fault, right-lateral, Fault, transform, Fault, zoned, Half-graben, Left-lateral fault, Potentially Active Fault, Right-lateral fault, SLIP, Strike-slip fault, Surface expression, Surface rupture, Transform fault, Unfaulted, Zoned fault
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The plane that best approximates the fracture surface of a fault.
- Browse Related Terms: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, Creep (rate), Edge habitat, fault, Fault block, Fault plane, Fault trace, Fault, left-lateral, Fault, potentially active, Fault, right-lateral, Fault, transform, Fault, zoned, Half-graben, Left-lateral fault, Potentially Active Fault, Right-lateral fault, SLIP, Strike-slip fault, Surface expression, Surface rupture, Transform fault, Unfaulted, Zoned fault
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The expression of a fault on the ground surface.
- Browse Related Terms: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, Creep (rate), Edge habitat, fault, Fault block, Fault plane, Fault trace, Fault, left-lateral, Fault, potentially active, Fault, right-lateral, Fault, transform, Fault, zoned, Half-graben, Left-lateral fault, Potentially Active Fault, Right-lateral fault, SLIP, Strike-slip fault, Surface expression, Surface rupture, Transform fault, Unfaulted, Zoned fault
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- A strike-slip fault on which displacement of the block opposite the observer is to the left. See also Strike-slip fault
- Browse Related Terms: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, Creep (rate), Edge habitat, fault, Fault block, Fault plane, Fault trace, Fault, left-lateral, Fault, potentially active, Fault, right-lateral, Fault, transform, Fault, zoned, Half-graben, Left-lateral fault, Potentially Active Fault, Right-lateral fault, SLIP, Strike-slip fault, Surface expression, Surface rupture, Transform fault, Unfaulted, Zoned fault
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A fault occurring usually as a result of extensional forces, such as when a hanging wall drops down relative to the footwall forming a graben or half graben.
- Browse Related Terms: Block-faulted (mountains), Down-dropped basin, Fault, normal, Graben (fault-bounded basins), Horst., Rift zone
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Generally denotes that a fault has shown evidence of surface displacement during Quaternary time.
- Browse Related Terms: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, Creep (rate), Edge habitat, fault, Fault block, Fault plane, Fault trace, Fault, left-lateral, Fault, potentially active, Fault, right-lateral, Fault, transform, Fault, zoned, Half-graben, Left-lateral fault, Potentially Active Fault, Right-lateral fault, SLIP, Strike-slip fault, Surface expression, Surface rupture, Transform fault, Unfaulted, Zoned fault
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- A strike-slip fault on which displacement of the block opposite the observer is to the right. See also Strike-slip fault
- Browse Related Terms: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, Creep (rate), Edge habitat, fault, Fault block, Fault plane, Fault trace, Fault, left-lateral, Fault, potentially active, Fault, right-lateral, Fault, transform, Fault, zoned, Half-graben, Left-lateral fault, Potentially Active Fault, Right-lateral fault, SLIP, Strike-slip fault, Surface expression, Surface rupture, Transform fault, Unfaulted, Zoned fault
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- A strike-slip fault forming the boundary between tectonic plates (e.g., the San Andreas Fault system is a transform fault zone that marks the boundary between the Pacific and North American Plates). See also Strike-slip fault
- Browse Related Terms: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, Creep (rate), Edge habitat, fault, Fault block, Fault plane, Fault trace, Fault, left-lateral, Fault, potentially active, Fault, right-lateral, Fault, transform, Fault, zoned, Half-graben, Left-lateral fault, Potentially Active Fault, Right-lateral fault, SLIP, Strike-slip fault, Surface expression, Surface rupture, Transform fault, Unfaulted, Zoned fault
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Under the Alquist-Priolo Act, zoned faults include those that are "sufficiently active," showing evidence of surface displacement within the past 11,000 years along one or more of their segments or branches, and "well-defined," having a clearly detectable trace at or just below the ground surface.
- Browse Related Terms: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act, Creep (rate), Edge habitat, fault, Fault block, Fault plane, Fault trace, Fault, left-lateral, Fault, potentially active, Fault, right-lateral, Fault, transform, Fault, zoned, Half-graben, Left-lateral fault, Potentially Active Fault, Right-lateral fault, SLIP, Strike-slip fault, Surface expression, Surface rupture, Transform fault, Unfaulted, Zoned fault
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The community of animals in a specific region or habitat.
- Browse Related Terms: Appropriate Management Level (AML), Aquaculture, Aquatic biota, Aquatic ecosystem, Biogenic source (emissions), Biota, Browse, Bryozoan, Burrow, cavity, Collection, Community, Crustaceans, Ecoregion, Fauna, Habitat, Harassment, Invertebrate, Montane, NatureServe Explorer, Plankton (planktonic), Terrestrial, Wetlands, Zoomorphic
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A large, complex artifact, or part of a site, such as a hearth, cairn, housepit, rock alignment, or activity area.
- Browse Related Terms: Base camp, Eutectic, Feature, Fire-cracked rock, Flake, Fossil, lithic, Paleontological resources, Roost, Stratigraphy (stratigraphic)
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