Characteristics and Recognition of Strike-Slip Fault Systems

Sedimentation in Oblique-Slip Mobile Zones

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 7-26

  Reading, Harold G ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Mineralogy ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caledonian continental collision; Characteristics and recognition of strike slip fault systems; Clay model experiments, showing characteristic pattern of drag folds; Plate tectonics, providing explanations for geological problems; San Andreas Fault system, changing from transtensile regime to transpressive; Sinistral Kirthar Sulaiman fault system, connecting Himalayan collision zone; Strike slip faults

Indexed keywords

EROSION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; DRAG FOLDS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT SYSTEMS;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 84955378798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303735.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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