Transfer zones with en echelon faulting at the northern end of the Suez rift
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Eocene to Miocene rocks in the central Cairo-Suez area have left-stepped en echelon normal faults in east-west belts. These serve to transfer a large amount of thethrow from northwest oriented faults of the rift to similarly-oriented faults in the Cairo-Suez area, with the throw lessening northwest away from the rift. Faults in the transfer zones may be arranged step-wise, or in horsts and grabens, with the zones and linked faults joined in zig-zag belts. Right- lateral divergent wenching on deep east-west preexisting faults may have causedthe formation of these belts.
Publication Name: Tectonics
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0278-7407
Year: 1992
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Mechanisms for accommodation of Miocene extension: Low-Angle normal faulting, magmatism, and secondary breakaway faulting in the southern Sacramento Mountains, southeastern California
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Magmatism, secondary breakaway faulting and low-angle normal faulting in the southern Sacramento Mountains, southeastern California, are discussed.
Publication Name: Tectonics
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0278-7407
Year: 2000
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Geometry and rate of faulting in the North Baikal Rift, Siberia
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A morphotectonic analysis of late Quaternary faulting in the North Baikal Rift is presented.
Publication Name: Tectonics
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0278-7407
Year: 2000
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