(geology) The line separating the region in which a beach has been thrust upward from that in which it is horizontal. A line in the plane of a hinge fault separating the part of a fault along which thrust or reverse movement occurred from that having normal movement.
hinge line
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(′hinj ′līn)
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A line either side of which isostatic readjustment proceeds unevenly.
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