| Determine the style of faulting and deformation on the flanks of the structure. |
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| Conversely, crust above the detachment undergoes nearly isobaric heating accompanied by brittle faulting with little or no uplift. |
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| Combinations of these types, such as oblique faulting, are depicted by variations of these principal types of focal mechanisms. |
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| Normal faulting led to the unroofing of metamorphic rocks in their footwalls. |
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| The models are simple in that they do not take account of the effects of multiple faulting, of fault friction, or of erosion. |
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| Geologically young, the Rockies exhibit faulting, glaciation, and volcanism, resulting in rugged, spectacularly scenic terrain. |
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| Intraformational faulting is regarded as a non-linear deformational response of non-elastic anisotropic material to loading. |
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| These subterranean muds are being uplifted into steeply dipping, anticlinal structures cored by strike-slip faulting. |
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| Deformation is complex, with normal faulting and strike-slip faulting in the geomorphological back-arc basin. |
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| A similar inter-relationship between strikeslip faulting and plutonism was suggested for the Mesozoic batholith of California. |
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| The normal-sense shears are confined to the gabbro block and may represent relict ocean floor faulting. |
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| The zone of active deltaic growth faulting has shifted basin-wards as the delta system has rapidly prograded across the shelf. |
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| They are comprised primarily of a rock called whinstone, which is very prone to vertical weathering and faulting. |
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| The basin experienced east-west folding and reverse faulting soon after deposition ended. |
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| Recent faulting is expressed as freshly exposed soil within the colluvial apron visible by its light tan colour. |
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| Evidence for the young age of uplift and faulting includes juvenile topography, faulted Quaternary marine terraces and a fractured falaj. |
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| These folds were interpreted by Seranne as forced folds formed by faulting in the underlying basement. |
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| Deposition of the unconformably overlying Red Bay Group was terminated in latest Lochkovian times by renewed sinistral strike-slip faulting. |
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| The three stacked, sequence-stratigraphic units were produced by episodes of faulting, subsidence, and infilling. |
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| Dowel bars are used in jointed plain concrete pavements to provide load transfer, which reduces faulting and improves performance. |
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| The seismic data show faulting of the subsurface sediments, possibly as dikes were injected into the center of the basin. |
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| Does lithology account for the very different patterns of faulting in the Permian sandstones and dolostones? |
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| At the other extreme, reverse faulting could cause the pattern of exhumation and basin inversion. |
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| The original form of these basins has been modified by subsequent faulting, Red Sea rift flank uplift, and erosion. |
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| The structural relations of these formations are complicated by extensive thrust faulting. |
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| While faulting her mother's choices in men, Melissa made a troubling choice of her own with her ambitionless boyfriend. |
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| In general, intracontinental mountain belts are characterized by block faulting. |
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| Geology: Morila is a mesothermal shear-zone-hosted deposit which, apart from rising to surface in the west against steep faulting, lies flat. |
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| Nothing is gained by faulting the justice agencies for what they do, nor the community for what it doesn't do. |
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| It is important that students use local examples of folding and faulting if at all possible. |
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| The monument's signature towering monoliths, spires, and steep canyons reflect millions of years of erosion, faulting, and tectonic plate movement. |
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| Extensive folding and faulting contributed to the area's complex geologic history. |
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| The plateau is actually a series of plateaus at different elevations arranged in a stairstep sequence through faulting. |
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| Analysis of active tectonics, faulting, and seismic hazard in the Juan de Fuca Strait, southeast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. |
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| Mid-Cretaceous faulting is observed along the Ran ridge, whereas the axis of the Paleocene rifted zone is shifted slightly further to the west in the Voring margin. |
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| Create a layered cross-section of the Earth's crust out of soft styrofoam sheets and demonstrate faulting and folding. |
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| This paper tentatively identifies two lineaments and a fault that may relate to sinistral strike-slip faulting in the pre-Paradox Formation basement beneath Upheaval Dome. |
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| The depositional pattern is indicative of a synsedimentary extensional regime involving low angle normal faulting. |
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| The break was probably not clean, but probably involved necking and thinning of the crust by both normal faulting and plastic stretching. |
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| Later, folding and faulting happened when the earth built mountains, raising the deposits of metal ores high above sea level. |
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| Of course, there can be no faulting Sicha for not having chosen different subject matter. |
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| It is possible that faulting along the crests of deep-seated anticlines provide the conduit for mobile muds to migrate through to the seafloor surface. |
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| Previous workers have attributed these differences to changes in rheology, i.e. brittle faulting in sandstones v. more ductile folding and faulting in dolostones. |
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| One type of evidence is the folding and faulting seen in seismic reflection images of young sediments at the base of the continental slope. |
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| It is thought this phenomenon is due to faulting at the mid-ocean ridge when the new oceanic crust was formed. |
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| The region is divided into the Inner Zone, formed by complex faulting, and the Outer Zone, formed by warping. |
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| The victim herself feels otherwise, faulting herself for not being able to convey the enormity of what happened. |
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| The structural pattern of the Tabular Jura, located between the Southern Black Forest and the Folded Jura, reveals a superposition of extensional Basement faulting and thin-skinned detachment in the sedimentary cover. |
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| This is known as thrust faulting and was instrumental in the formation of the Rockies. |
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| Mountain building there resulted from compressional folding and high-angle faulting, except for the low-angle thrust-faulting in southwestern Wyoming and southeastern Idaho. |
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| Mountain building in these ranges resulted from compressional folding and high-angle faulting during the Laramide Orogeny, as the Mesozoic sedimentary rocks were arched upward over a massive batholith of crystalline rock. |
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| The Court of Appeal restored the trial judge's award, faulting the Divisional Court for having found that the trial judge had determined that the policy manual formed part of the contract. |
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| The location, frequency and structure of any faulting or fracturing in surrounding geological strata and the potential impact of seismic activity on these structures should be included. |
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| Either the river has in some way been influenced by a process, e.g. geological faulting, or the river has created or modified the feature, e.g. an aquatic ecosystem. |
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| The rocks in these belts have also undergone folding, faulting and uplift. |
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| As well, regional analysis of basement faulting has caught the interest of the petroleum companies who have long suspected a linkage between such faulting and development of reservoirs in overlying strata. |
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| When a monetary aggregate is extremely sensitive to interest rate variations, in some circumstances that fact may be questioned without faulting the theory. |
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| This movement caused widespread faulting in the Cordillera. |
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| The increased dip and faulting restricted the selection of route on the French side. |
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| It occurs where previously compressed rock is allowed to return to its original shape more rapidly than can be maintained without faulting. |
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| Deeper in the Earth, rocks behave plastically and fold instead of faulting. |
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| This is primarily accomplished through normal faulting and through the ductile stretching and thinning. |
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| They discussed the role of mantle plumes, preexisting orogenic fabric of the plates and strike-slip faulting on the rifting initiation and development. |
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| Groundwater is present in most rocks, and the pressure of this groundwater affects patterns of faulting. |
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| In coastal areas such as Shackleton Range and Victoria Land some faulting has occurred. |
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| Active subsidence, sedimentation, growth faulting, pore fluid formation and migration are all active processes on passive margins. |
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| This boundary is in part the result of transform faulting along with thrust faulting and some subduction. |
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| The coal measures were subsequently subjected to folding accounting for the dip towards the south and west and faulting occurred at this time. |
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| These estuaries are formed by subsidence or land cut off from the ocean by land movement associated with faulting, volcanoes, and landslides. |
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| It is elongated to the northwest, shortened to the southeast, with corresponding types of faulting prevalent in each sector. |
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| Subsequent extensional faulting controls reservoir development. |
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| The key interval of the lower Hirnantian and lowermost Llandovery is mostly monoclinal and is not affected by faulting. |
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| The mineralization is located at the contact of two regional structural trends where faulting and deformation have produced intense cataclasis and brecciation. |
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| These movements include faulting, tilting, folding, and warping. |
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| Igneous activity between 350 and 400 million years ago, coupled with faulting, led to the creation of tough basalt volcanic plugs, which predominate over much of the area. |
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| In contrast, in the northern region, deformation was predominantly brittle faulting associated with the numerous large-scale strike-slip fault zones. |
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| Strike-slip faulting and Diapirism of the south-eastern Zagros ranges. |
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| These canyons form by channelized turbidites and generally lose definition with depth because continuous faulting disrupts the submarine channels. |
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