Definition & Meaning | English word PULL-APART

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Definitions of PULL-APART

1. A kind of sweet or savory food made with baked dough.
2. (geology) A structural basin where two overlapping faults or a fault bend create(s) an area of crustal extension undergoing tension, which causes the basin to sink down.

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Examples of Using PULL-APART in a Sentence

• The Cayman Trough (also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) is a complex transform fault zone pull-apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge, the Mid-Cayman Rise, on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
• Examples of active pull-apart basins include the Dead Sea, formed at a left-stepping offset of the sinistral sense Dead Sea Transform system, and the Sea of Marmara, formed at a right-stepping offset on the dextral sense North Anatolian Fault system.
• Right lateral motion of a strike-slip fault at a right stepover (or overstep) gives rise to extensional bends characterised by zones of subsidence, local normal faults, and pull-apart basins.
• Launched in 2000, the Intensive Care Appeal is a major fund-raising event held annually in Australia and New Zealand to create awareness and raise funds by selling wristbands and key tags – in 2008 a four-colored pen with a safety pull-apart lanyard will be introduced.
• The Matzen fault system in the Matzen oil field has been recast as extensional grabens produced by pull-apart basins of the Vienna Basin.
• This "pull-apart" model evolved based on the combined presence of diverse structural and depositional features that include lake-derived layer associated with vaporite horizons and various types of synsedimentary deformation, all with the presence of intercalations of basaltic strata.
• The exposed metamorphic lineation along the belt indicates different motions within the central belt: (1) dextral pull apart geometry trending in a north-northwest direction during Oligocene to early Miocene forming an "en-echelon" pull-apart basin: (2) fault-propagated folds cored in a west-dipping thrust fault in the basin center implies an east-west trending transpressional deformation from Pliocene-Pleistocene onwards.
• Peanut allergen powder is a powder that is manufactured from peanuts (Arachis hypogaea) and packaged in pull-apart color-coded capsules for dose escalation and up-dosing, and in a sachet for maintenance treatment.
• The red rhombs are pull-apart basins; the northern one is the site of the Niland geothermal field, the southern the Cerro Prieto geothermal field.
• The bakery also sells many other varieties of bread and pastries, including squaw, cinnamon pull-apart brioches, turnovers, éclairs, sourdough, oliebol, macarons, plain cheese, and chili-cheese.
• The following week, Alexander and Hammerstone got into a pull-apart brawl at the start of the show, to which the former upped the ante by challenging the latter to a Last Man Standing match at Rebellion, which TNA made official.

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