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Horizontal faults can be refered to as lateral faults or strike-slip faults.
Horizontal shear
strike-slip has a horizontal motion
Strike-slip Fault
Horizontal sideways movements.
strike-slip
the strike
A horizontally moving fault is called a strike-slip fault
For the pitcher's ball/strike pitch numbers, it is counted as a strike.
The strike of a stratum or planar feature is a line representing the intersection of that feature with the horizontal.
Strike slip faults display horizontal or "sideways" deformation.
Strike and dip refer to the orientation or attitude of a geologic feature. The strike line of a bed, fault, or other planar feature, is a line representing the intersection of that feature with a horizontal plane.