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- the coast of western Java there is potentially a backthrust fault. The existence of the backthrust could increase the height of tsunamis off the coast...
- Indian and Eurasian plates, the northern segment of ophiolitic rock was backthrust onto the edge of the Eurasian Plate, separating from the southern ophiolite...
- 1029/2001JE001593. Schultz, R. A. (2000). "Localization of Bedding Plane Slip and Backthrust Faults Above Blind Thrust Faults: Keys to Wrinkle Ridge Structure". Journal...
- sedimentary rock along the basal decollement of an accretionary wedge. Backthrusting of the rear of the accretionary wedge, arcward over the rocks of the...
- the larger backthrust of the back-arc region of Indonesia. Earlier marine geophysical studies have suggested that the back-arc backthrust consists of...
- verging. This indicates that the Jabal Hafit anticline formed due to a backthrust (antithetic fault), and is a fault-propagation fold. Within the eroded...
- earlier part of the displacement was accommodated by the Tians****hai backthrust belt. The central section of the fault zone consists of five slightly...
- northern edge of the ridge is generally interpreted as a northward-moving backthrust. The degree to which the observed thrust faults within the ridge connect...
- Besides, the South Tibet detachment is linked to the Great Counter thrust (backthrust) of the thrust wedge. The Greater Himalayan Crystalline complex was not...
- deformation may reconnect with the detachment. It is also the case that a backthrust may occur in an asymmetric fold geometry as shear across the forelimb...