In the early stages of strike-slip fault formation, displacement within basement rocks produces characteristic fault structures within the overlying cover. This will also be the case where an active strike-slip zone lies within an area of continuing sedimentation.
COBOL Language & History. COBOL is a programming language that reads like regular English and is often used for business and administrative purposes. The name means Common Business Oriented Language. COBOL is referred to as a legacy language, which means it is in a format that is no longer used or supported by new systems.
For other uses, see Cobalt (disambiguation). Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. Like nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.