Characteristics and Recognition of Strike‐Slip Fault Systems

• 11 September 1980
• book chapter
• Published by Wiley
• p. 7-26
• https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444303735.ch2

Abstract

Keywords

• CHARACTERISTICS AND RECOGNITION OF STRIKE-SLIP FAULT SYSTEMS
• PLATE TECTONICS
• PROVIDING EXPLANATIONS FOR GEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
• STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS
• CALEDONIAN CONTINENTAL COLLISION
• SINISTRAL KIRTHAR-SULAIMAN FAULT SYSTEM
• CONNECTING HIMALAYAN COLLISION ZONE
• SAN ANDREAS FAULT SYSTEM
• CHANGING FROM TRANSTENSILE REGIME TO TRANSPRESSIVE
• CLAY MODEL EXPERIMENTS
• SHOWING CHARACTERISTIC PATTERN OF DRAG FOLDS