Slope-derived sediments transported chiefly by gravity and local slope processes. Collapse and raveling of an earthquake fault scarp can supply a colluvial wedge.
A wedge-shaped slope deposit, commonly thickest beside a scarp and thinning away from it. When combined with faulting, burial and cross-cutting relations it can record a past surface-rupturing earthquake; a wedge alone does not prove a separate event.

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