Tectonics of strike-slip restraining and releasing bends
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Tectonics of strike-slip restraining and releasing bends
One of the remarkable tectonic features of the Earth’s crust is the widespread presence of long, approximately straight and geomorphically prominent strike-slip faults which are a kinematic consequence of large-scale motion of plates on a sphere (Wilson 1965). Strike-slip faults form in continental and oceanic transform plate boundaries; in intraplate settings as a continental interior response...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0305-8719,2041-4927
DOI: 10.1144/sp290.1