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Transtension

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to the regional slip vector causing local extension (such as a right stepping bend on a right-lateral fault). They also form where two segments of a strike-slip fault overlap, and the relay zone between the segments experiences transtension. Releasing bends often form
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Transtensional shear zones are characterized by the co-existence of different structures, related to both strike-slip shear and extension. End member structures include pure strike-slip faults and purely extensional ("normal")
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Dickinson, W.R., ed., Tectonics and Sedimentation: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication No. 22.
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are transtensional structures that form where the orientation of a strike-slip fault becomes
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Diagram of fault geometry (in map view) that leads to transtension at the bend or step-over.
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Crowell, J.C. 1974. Origin of Late Cenozoic Basins in Southern California,
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Armijo, R.; Meyer B.; Navarro S.; King G.; Narka A. (2002).
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Strike-Slip Deformation, Basin Formation, and Sedimentation
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is the state in which a rock mass or area of the Earth's
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Index

crust
shear
normal faults
grabens
strike-slip faults
dip-slip faults

negative flower structures
pull-apart basins
Dead Sea
Salton Sea
Sea of Marmara
North Anatolian Fault
Pull-apart basin
Rift
Strike-slip tectonics
Structural geology
Transpression


ISBN
0-86542-924-3
"Asymmetric slip partitioning in the Sea of Marmara pull-apart: a clue to propagation processes of the North Anatolian Fault?"
Bibcode
2002TeNov..14...80A
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.546.4111
doi
10.1046/j.1365-3121.2002.00397.x
Royden, Leigh H.

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