Fault and tectonic history
Geosciences 2014 LATE NEOGENE NORMAL FAULT ARCHITECTURE AND TECTONIC HISTORY ALONG THE NORTH TARANAKI COAST.
... where fault 4 (black lines) displaces seven deformation bands (each represented by a different colour and labelled a‐h) by different amounts (see ...that fault 4 accrued its total displacement in a series ...
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Basin Development and Tectonic History of the Llanos Basin. Cooper 36
... Yopal fault, which detaches within sequence T40, overrides the Cusiana fault to the north and buries the branch line with the latter ...of fault repetition of the Mirador in the El Morro-1 ...
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From Nuna to Gondwana : a critical assessment of the early tectonic history of Tasmania
... 6.3.4 Gordon River Road A 50 m wide exposure of metamorphic sole amphibolites occurs in a road cutting along the Gordon River Road and is in fault contact with a 1.5 × 0.5 km fault-bound body of massive ...
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Investigations on the Mesozoic Geologic and Tectonic History of the Jackson Mountains, Northwest Nevada
... normal fault [Quinn, 1996; Quinn et ...normal fault is not consistent with and furthermore is in direct conflict with geologic relationships found in the study ...subsidiary fault surfaces is ...
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Implications of Silurian granite genesis to the tectonic history of the Nashoba terrane, Eastern Massachusetts
... of the 378 ± 3 Ma aged hornblende gabbro-diorite (U-Pb zircon; Hepburn et al., 1993) that dominates the suite. This would suggest that the Waltham granite, along with the Cambridge Reservoir Suite, is too young to be ...
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Chapter 2 Tectonic history of the Transverse Ranges: Rotation and deformation on the plate boundary
... 8 Introduction The coast of southern California is located on a transpressional plate boundary between the Pacific and North America plates. The Pacific plate is moving northwest relative to North America at around 48 ...
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Tectonic history of the Los Angeles Basin: Understanding what formed and deforms the city of Los Angeles
... To better understand the interpretations and discrepancies in the LA Basin literature, it is essential to study basin classification and each basin’s associated characteristics. Extensional Rifting and Basaltic Volcanism ...
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Global kinematic constraints to the tectonic history of the Mediterranean region and surrounding areas during the Jurassic and Cretaceous
... Regarding the Tethyan realm, we note the establishment of two different trench systems, which were presumably separated by a transform fault (Fig. 15). In the Western Mediterranean, old oceanic crust of the ...
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Tectonic Geomorphology and Paleoseismology of theLake Heron Fault, New Zealand
... Heron Fault since the Last Glacial Maximum, and to use this information to better understand fault dynamics in west-central ...Heron Fault, an approximated late Quaternary earthquake fault ...
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Paleoearthquake history of the Spili fault
... Therefore, better understanding and forecasting of earthquake occurrence is one of the most pressing humanitarian goals within the sciences. Tectonic faults are breaks in the Earth's crust that grow primarily due ...
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A Study on Tectonic and Sedimentology in Order to Fault Rupture Potential in Coasts the Makran Sea
... Semi-arid climatic conditions with disseminated, poor vegetation and minim- al soil cover make the inland Makran an excellent application where remotely sensed data may be used effectively to decipher rocks, structures ...
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Structure and geological history of the Carboneras Fault Zone, SE Spain: Part of a stretching transform fault system
... a tectonic contact with underlying phyllites that are generally intensely damaged and transformed into fault gouge, that must have developed prior to the CFZ faulting, but which also produces very similar ...
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Mineralogical Characteristics of Garnet in Garnet Mica Schist and Its Tectonic Significance in the Tongbai Section of the Shangdan Fault Zone
... and fault zone formed, part stress was released leading pressure declined; finally garnet regrow in the thermal relaxation envi- ronmental warming slightly pressurized (part of euhedral garnet also reflects the ...
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Tectonic history of the South West Pacific region
... to be substantiated as new data becomes available. Their main contribution at this stage is probably to define criticalareas from which More information is required, and it is in this [r] ...
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The tectonic history of the Dial Range area, Tasmania
... subangular pebbles of white, foliated sandstone averaging one inch but ranging up to six inches in diameter form almost el ty percent of the rook. One solitary pebble of chart was not[r] ...
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The tectonic history of the Dial Range area, Tasmania
... of the axial surfaces of the polyelinal folds form a sheaf which has axis parallel to the axes of rods (plate nte). The axes and axial surfaces define an imposed axial sutfnbrie[r] ...
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The utilizition of fault in controlling petroleum entrapment on the slope tectonic zone
... of fault in controlling petroleum entrapment on the slope tectonic zone Zhang Meiling 1 , Zheng Lin 1 , Liu Yunxin 1 College of Earth Science, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, 163318, ...
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Origin, structural and tectonic history of the Macquarie Island region
... The formation of the eastern Indian/ Australian oceanic plate south of Australia, to which the Macquarie Island rocks belong, has been investigated from sea-floor spread[r] ...
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Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Poznań-Oleśnica Fault Zone, central-western Poland
... FIRST DEFORMATIONAL STAGE. Early Oligocene deposition of the Lower Mosina, Czempiń and Upper Mosina formations marked the initial extensional sub- sidence phase of almost the entire P-OFZ except for its southernmost ...
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Tectonic Geomorphology and Paleoseismicity of the Northern Esk Fault, North Canterbury, New Zealand
... For the purpose of this study all recorded earthquakes within 15 km of the preserved surface trace of the NEF since January 2004 were manually examined to find first-motion focal mechanisms and slip vectors for each one. ...
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