Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- How to use this book
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of symbols
- 1 Structural geology and structural analysis
- 2 Deformation
- 3 Strain in rocks
- 4 Stress
- 5 Stress in the lithosphere
- 6 Rheology
- 7 Fracture and brittle deformation
- 8 Faults
- 9 Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime
- 10 Deformation at the microscale
- 11 Folds and folding
- 12 Foliation and cleavage
- 13 Lineations
- 14 Boudinage
- 15 Shear zones and mylonites
- 16 Contractional regimes
- 17 Extensional regimes
- 18 Strike-slip, transpression and transtension
- 19 Salt tectonics
- 20 Balancing and restoration
- 21 A glimpse of a larger picture
- Appendix A More about the deformation matrix
- Appendix B Stereographic projection
- Glossary
- References
- Cover and chapter image captions
- Index
- References
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18 - Strike-slip, transpression and transtension
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- How to use this book
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of symbols
- 1 Structural geology and structural analysis
- 2 Deformation
- 3 Strain in rocks
- 4 Stress
- 5 Stress in the lithosphere
- 6 Rheology
- 7 Fracture and brittle deformation
- 8 Faults
- 9 Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime
- 10 Deformation at the microscale
- 11 Folds and folding
- 12 Foliation and cleavage
- 13 Lineations
- 14 Boudinage
- 15 Shear zones and mylonites
- 16 Contractional regimes
- 17 Extensional regimes
- 18 Strike-slip, transpression and transtension
- 19 Salt tectonics
- 20 Balancing and restoration
- 21 A glimpse of a larger picture
- Appendix A More about the deformation matrix
- Appendix B Stereographic projection
- Glossary
- References
- Cover and chapter image captions
- Index
- References
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- Structural Geology , pp. 355 - 370Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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, and , 1973, Basic wrench tectonics. American Association of Petroleum GeologistsBulletin 57: 74–96.Google Scholar
and , 1994, Continental strike-slip tectonics. In (Ed.), Continental Deformation. Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 251–263.Google Scholar
and , 1982, Evolution of pull-apart basins and their scale independence. Tectonics 1: 91–105.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1966, “Pull-apart” origin of the central segment of Death Valley, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 77, 439–442.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (Eds.), 2007, Tectonics of Strike-slip Restraining and Releasing Bends. Special Publication 290, London: Geological Society.
, 1991, Displacements and segment linkage in strike-slip fault zones. Journal of Structural Geology 13: 1025–1035.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1995, Deformation around stepovers in strike-slip fault zones. Journal of Structural Geology 17: 831–846.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and , 1990, Transpression, orogenic float, and lithospheric balance. Geology 18: 991–994.2.3.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1997, Stretching lineations in transpressional shear zones: an example from the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California. Journal of Structural Geology 19: 29–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1992, Transected folds and transpression: how are they associated?Journal of Structural Geology 14: 361–367.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and , 1994, Strain modeling of transpressional and transtensional deformation. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 74: 134–145.Google Scholar
, , , and , 2004, Inclined transpression. Journal of Structural Geology 26: 1531–1548.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1994, Strain and vorticity patterns in ideally ductile transpression zones. Journal of Structural Geology 16: 447–466.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1994, Strain modeling of displacement-field partitioning in transpressional orogens. Journal of Structural Geology 16: 1575–1588.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1976, Predicting productive trends related to wrench faults. World Oil, June 1976: 64–69.Google Scholar
, and , 2004, Seismic reflection imaging of a major strike-slip fault zone in a rift system: Paleogene structure and evolution of the Tan-Lu fault system, Liaodong Bay, Bohai, offshore China. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 88: 71–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and , 2000, Influence of rift obliquity on fault-population systematics: results of experimental clay models. Journal of Structural Geology 22: 1491–1509.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1995, Analogue models of pull-apart basins. Geology 23: 711–714.2.3.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1998, Physical experiments of transpressional folding. Journal of Structural Geology 20: 661–672.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and (Eds.), 2003, Intraplate Strike-slip Deformation Belts. Special Publication 210, London: Geological Society.
, and , 1986, On the mechanics of the collision between India and Asia. In and (Eds.), Collision Tectonics. Special Publication 19, London: Geological Society, pp. 115–157.Google Scholar
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