slip surface

slip surface
   A landslide displacement surface, often slickensided and striated, or brecciated, and subplanar. It is best exhibited in argillaceous materials and in those materials which are highly susceptible to clay alteration when granulated; also called shear surface (not preferred).
   Compare: main scarp, landslide, escarpment.
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Glossary of landform and geologic terms. 2013.

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