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As there is no sign of contact metamorphism in the limestones, we interpret this to be a normal fault.
This basin is emphasized by normal fault scarps that face the river from its SW bank.
We interpret this pattern as a Mesozoic normal fault zone whose inversion gave rise, along strike to the NW, to the south Cameros thrust.
It is now commonly accepted that the dip of the steeper part of a listric normal fault is approximately 60 deg.
Massive dolomite and dolomitic breccias are separated by a normal fault from the upper part of the sequence.
Recent studies proposed that the Cretan detachment is a shallowly north-dipping normal fault, which formed subparallel to the subjacent subduction thrust in the Early Miocene.
The current morphology of the coastal terraces suggests that oblique-slip thrust movements have recently exceeded oblique-slip normal fault movements.
The area is transected by numerous faults, most of which are dextral strike-slip faults, but a NNW-trending fault just west of Arleau Brook is interpreted as a normal fault that dissects the Melanson Brook Anticline.
However, a normal fault just west of Arleau Brook is proposed to explain missing stratigraphy between the Simpsons Field and Jacquet River formations.
Few normal fault earthquakes were observed.
This normal fault is known as Bawuran Fault.
Finding the key bed in these situations may help determine whether the fault is a normal fault or a thrust fault.
These rocks dip to the west within the north-trending Dark Star Corridor, which is bounded to the east by a large displacement, normal fault.
This defined the geometry of a large tilted fault block closed by a major normal fault.
This depressed zone lies between the bounding normal fault and rim zone, an uplifted area that surrounds the inner crater.
Each block has rotated along the curved plane of a listric normal fault, so that the dip of the displaced strata is away from the valley axis.
Our recent geological work shows the northwest oriented Venturina and other veins are terminated by a low angle east-west normal fault.
However, normal fault, and strike-slip, types are also observed.
A normal fault may therefore become a reverse fault and vice versa.
Cerro Amarillo, a domal feature approximately six kilometers across, and Cerro Bola, which is truncated by a major north-south trending normal fault, rise above this surface.
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