vertical as in a strike slip fault or inclined like a subduction zone fault. Fault zone

strike-slip. But, as shown in figs. 3 and 4 (cross sec- tion A-A'), it is not the only

3.1 Dip-slip faults; 3.2 Strike-slip faults; 3.3 Oblique-slip faults; 3.4 Listric fault; 3.5

Like any fault, wrench faults can develop bends in a variety of ways: The fault

Abstract Tancheng-Lujiang fault zone is an important strike-slip fault system in

In most zones of continent-continent collision the relative . Examples include the

DEFORMATION AND BASIN FORMATION ALONG STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS . OF

TECTONIC FEATURES The tectonic setting of the area is characterized by

We interpret the faults to be part of a flower structure related to the Garmesa

Aug 1, 1993 . A rare study of the enormous Chinese fault zone equal to that of the San . along

The eastern margin of the massif, where it is adjacent and subparallel to the

Pop-ups and transpressional uplifts are an integral part of intraplate and

MAJOR TECTONIC ZONES Faults with obvious strike-slip displacements have

Notice that for several of the major faults shown in Figure 7 (Interpreted seismic

Seismic reflection imaging of a major strike-slip fault zone in a rift system:

Definition of strike-slip fault – Our online dictionary has strike-slip fault .

dextral strike-slip fault zone at the south edge of the Mount Athos Peninsula. The

seismic profile across a convergent strike-slip fault zone in the Ardmore basin (

the question of whether a through-going, active strike-slip fault zone exists. We

books.google.comhttp://books.google.com/books/about/Wrench_fault_tectonics.

Deficit - other faults. Crowell - total of 350 km on San Andreas fault, 1000 km on

one), largely spaced and crossing the fault zone at great angles, is enough to

Fault-related hydrothermal fluid flow is most likely to occur in transtensional

Feb 2, 2011 . The strike-slip movement is characterized by a distinctive strike-slip zone

Dec 19, 2011 . Oil Field. Structural Class. 1. Salt Creek basement-involved thrust-generated fold(

photographs and description of fault types and fault zone features. . Faults and

ing, and related fractures and faults depend on the bending or stepping geometry

Strike-slip faults. Fault rupture of the ground generates vibrations-or waves-in the

A type of strike-slip fault in which the fault surface is vertical, and the fault blocks

increase in finite shortening strains across the wrench fault zones in the east of

Numerous strike-slip fault zones in granitic rocks of the Mount Abbot quadrangle,

crystallization of the fault zones is con- sidered to be the result of annealing

Cenozoic sedimentation and sequence of deformational events at the

~17° to the principal displacement zone, and characteristically step in the

Figure 6d--This block diagram of a wrench-fault zone shows that vertical

The studied segment of the Mid-Hungarian Mobile Belt consists of several long (

slip basins are sharply defined and bounded by steeply dipping faults. • In cross

In accordance with wrench fault tectonics concepts, an attempt has been made to

lpckamas River right lateral wrench . Basin and Range Province at the Brothers

classic expression is of a deep seated, subvertical fault zone that branches out

the faults, and the deformation is partly distributed outside the fault zone. The

of strike-slip shear (Fig 1A). In many cases, individ- ual regional strike-slip fault

complex wrench fault network at Rulison Field, and its linkage to enhanced

Oxburgh (1966) and Murany (1972) suggested that the La Victoria fault zone, and

The wrench faults in the basin are transtensional and right-lateral. The amount of

history of development, may be more generally applicable to major strike-slip

duct of transpression in the fault zone. Numerous high-angle normal faults also in

The Newport-Inglewood zone of deformation is one of several, large

Across the fault zone, the Pacific plate moves north, relative to North America.

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