inclined fault vs faulting

inclined fault and faulting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
inclined fault	Yes	No	No	No
faulting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, faulting is a hypernym of inclined fault; that is, faulting is a word with a broader meaning than inclined fault:

inclined fault: a geological fault in which one side is above the other
faulting: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

Other hypernyms of inclined fault include break, fault, fracture, geological fault, shift.

inclined fault (noun)	faulting (noun)
a geological fault in which one side is above the other	(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other