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English
A diagram of the layout of the Rivadavia-class battleships; the amidships turrets are mounted en echelon.
(geology) Consisting of a series of diagonal lines, each somewhat offset from its neighbors, approximately parallel, but at an angle to a particular direction.
1985, Fossil Energy Update, page 74:
This fault zone trends north-south, consists of en echelon horsts and grabens striking about 30° cast of the zone's trend, and was active from the Jurassic through the Eocene. The presence of the grabens, their orientation and en echelon arrangement, and the age of movement are all consistent with divergent strike-slip movement.
