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- In geology, transpression is a type of strike-slip deformation that deviates from simple shear because of a simultaneous component of shortening perpendicular...
- rotated porphyroclasts asymmetric boudins (Figure 1) asymmetric folds Transpression regimes are formed during oblique collision of tectonic plates and during...
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- dominant structures are interpreted as having resulted from sinistral transpression, which involved strain partitioning of regional deformation between...
- North American Plate but can't break them off. Rather, the resulting transpression force pushes up the local terrain and helps explain why these are the...
- called the Laramide orogeny. In particular a large area of dextral transpression and southwest-directed thrust faulting was active from 75 to 66 million...
- the north of the island of Hispaniola. It has formed as a result of transpression along the southern margin of the North American Plate. The strike-slip...
- involve strike slip with a minor shortening/compressional component. Transpression is seen along bends in strike slip fault zones where the land is forced...
- North American Plate but can't break them off. Rather, the resulting transpression force pushes up the local terrain and helps explain why these are the...
- expressed at the tectonic scale involving oblique convergent margins and transpression / transtension tectonic regimes. Convergent margins where the angle...