1US (especially of food) able to be pulled into pieces or sections.
pull-apart cinnamon rolls
pull-apart pork ribs with cajun spices
2Geology Denoting an area which has been ruptured or stretched by the tensional stresses of faulting.
〔地质〕（因断裂运动的拉应力而）拉裂的，拉分的
Example sentencesExamples
An integral part of the pull-apart tectonic model of the Silverpit Crater is the presence of more than one layer of detachment within the structure.
In the more complex, uniformitarian model presented here, the void is created initially in the subsurface by pull-apart movement at a right-stepping dextral strike-slip fault in the basement.
During the Cretaceous, however, an ocean basin existed in this area, either as a remnant ocean that had escaped Jurassic obduction or as a small Cretaceous pull-apart basin.
There is no strong evidence from the regional geometry or the local structures to suggest a simple pull-apart geometry for the rift.
The pull-apart structures in the study area are clearly of different types.
Definition of pull-apart in US English:
pull-apart
adjectiveˈpo͝oləˌpärt
1US (especially of food) able to be pulled into pieces or sections.
pull-apart cinnamon rolls
pull-apart pork ribs with cajun spices
2Geology Denoting an area that has been ruptured or stretched by tensional stresses or the resulting faulting.
〔地质〕（因断裂运动的拉应力而）拉裂的，拉分的
Example sentencesExamples
There is no strong evidence from the regional geometry or the local structures to suggest a simple pull-apart geometry for the rift.
The pull-apart structures in the study area are clearly of different types.
An integral part of the pull-apart tectonic model of the Silverpit Crater is the presence of more than one layer of detachment within the structure.
In the more complex, uniformitarian model presented here, the void is created initially in the subsurface by pull-apart movement at a right-stepping dextral strike-slip fault in the basement.
During the Cretaceous, however, an ocean basin existed in this area, either as a remnant ocean that had escaped Jurassic obduction or as a small Cretaceous pull-apart basin.