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Modes of Extensional Tectonics by Brian Wernicke; B.C. Burchfiel is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Modes of Extensional Tectonics about?
Although hundreds of papers have been devoted to the geometric and kinematic analysis of compressional tectonic regimes, surprisingly little has been written about the details of large-scale strain in extended areas. We attempt, by means of quantitative theoretical analysis guided by real geological examples, to establish some ground rules for interpreting extensional phenomena. We have found that large, very low-angle normal faults dominate highly extended terranes, and that both listric and planar normal faults are common components of their hanging walls. The very low-angle normal faults may have displacements from a few kilometres up to several tens of kilometres and we regard their hanging walls as extensional allochthons, analogous (but with opposite sense of movement) to thrust-fault aliochthons. Differential tilt between imbricate fault blocks suggests listric geometry at depth, whereas uniformly tilted blocks are more likely to be bounded by planar faults. The tilt direction of imbricate normal-fault blocks within large extensional allochthons is commonly away from the transport direction of these sheets, but in many cases tilts are in the same direction as transport, thus
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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Earth and Planetary Sciences.
- Author
- Brian Wernicke; B.C. Burchfiel
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)