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Faulted craters as indicators for thrust motions on Mercury

Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2014
Abstract Craters cross-cut by faults are used as markers to obtain fault geometric and kinematic properties. Assuming that the shape of these craters was originally circular, it is possible to measure the horizontal and vertical components of fault displacement as well as the slip trend.
GALLUZZI, VALENTINA, Di Achille G., FERRANTI, LUIGI, Popa C., Palumbo P.   +4 more
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The Pamir frontal thrust fault

2021
The Pamir Frontal Thrust (PFT) of the Trans-Alai Range in Central Asia is the principal active fault of the intracontinental convergence zone between the Pamir and Tien Shan. Its northward propagation is reflected by frequent seismic activity and ongoing crustal shortening.
Patyniak, Magda, Landgraf, Angela, Dzhumabaeva, A., Baikulov, S., Williams, A. M., Weiss, Jonathan, Hilley, George E., Preusser, Frank, Abdrakhmatov, Kanatbek, Arrowsmith, Ramon J., Strecker, Manfred (Prof. Dr.)   +10 more
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Thermal effects of thrust faulting

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1981
Abstract Calculations based on simple models of overthrust sheets in crystalline basement rocks show that significant thermal effects may result from their movements. If rates are sufficiently high (e.g. plate tectonic rates), the thrust sheets sufficiently thick (5, 10 and 15 km are modelled here), the distances moved sufficiently large, and for ...
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Thrust Fault-Related Folding

2011
Thrust fault-related folds form numerous important hydrocarbon traps in sub-aerial and deepwater fold and thrust belts as well as in inversion fold and thrust belts. This publication presents 16 papers on new advances in the analysis and understanding of thrust-related fold systems including detachment folds, thrust-fault propagation folds, wedge ...
K. McClay, J. Shaw, J. Suppe
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Alternative model of thrust-fault propagation

Geology, 1987
A widely accepted explanation for the geometry of thrust faults is that initial failures occur on deeply buried planes of weak rock and that thrust faults propagate toward the surface along a staircase trajectory. We propose an alternative model that applies Gretener's beam-failure mechanism to a multilayered sequence. Invoking compatibility conditions,
Gloria Eisenstadt, Declan G. De Paor
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The Saltville thrust: investigation of a regional thrust fault in a foreland fold and thrust belt

2020
Thin-skinned models of deformation are currently accepted for the southern Appalachians. The mechanics of this type of deformation are not well understood. The Saltville thrust, a major overthrust in the southern Appalachians, was investigated with respect to deformation mechanics.
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Recent thrust faulting in southeastern Connecticut

Geology, 1979
Since precolonial times, low-magnitude seismic activity has been noted in southeastern Connecticut. South of Colchester, drill holes made in 1970 for roadcut blasting soon developed offsets that provide evidence for recently active thrust faulting.
Joel W. Block, Richard C. Clement, Laurence R. Lew, Jelle de Boer   +3 more
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Thrust faults in inverted extensional basins

1992
Thrust faults in inverted extensional basins may not exhibit the simple low-angle, ramp-flat thrust trajectories that are characteristic of many foreland fold and thrust belts, but are expected to show more complex geometries controlled by the architecture of the earlier extensional fault system.
K. R. McClay, P. G. Buchanan
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Thrust Fault

2014
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The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults

Seismological Research Letters, 2008
This book is essentially B.S.—Before Sumatra. Before December 26, 2004, when part of the thrust fault interface between the subducting Indian and overriding Burma plates off the coast of Sumatra broke. Before the rupture raced 1,200 km northward at 10,000 km/hr (Mach 8).
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