Creighton fault

{{Short description|Fault line}}

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Creighton fault is a major fault line through the Sudbury Basin in Canada. It has a mapped length of 56 km, a throw of over 600m, and a shear zone 30m wide, and runs east–west through Lake Ramsey and the Creighton mine.{{cite journal |doi=10.1139/t85-064|title=Rock engineering for construction of Science North, Sudbury, Ontario|year=1985|last1=Franklin|first1=John A.|last2=Pearson|first2=David|journal=Canadian Geotechnical Journal|volume=22|issue=4|pages=443–455}}{{cite journal |last1=Espley |first1=Samantha |title=Strategies for Mining in the Vicinity of the Creighton Fault at Vale Inco's Copper Cliff Mine |journal=Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum |date=2010 |url=https://store.cim.org/en/strategies-for-mining-in-the-vicinity-of-the-creighton-fault-at-vale-incos-copper-cliff-mine}} The fault is the raison-d'etre of Greater Sudbury, and plays host to countless magmatic orebodies.{{cite conference|last1=Razavi |first1=M. |last2=Espley |first2=S. |last3=Yao |first3=M. |title=Open Stope Stability Analysis of VRM Stope In the Vicinity of Creighton Fault By Numerical And Empirical Methods |conference=45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium |date=June 26, 2011|id=ARMA-11-431 |url=https://onepetro.org/ARMAUSRMS/proceedings-abstract/ARMA11/All-ARMA11/ARMA-11-431/120366|url-access=subscription}}