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- Transtension is the state in which a rock m**** or area of the Earth's crust experiences both extensive and transtensive shear. As such, transtensional...
- earthquakes with a south block up and west oblique sense of movement. Transtension regimes are oblique tensional environments. Oblique, normal geologic...
- the Inle Lake basin which the fault runs through indicate a history of transtension, transpression and strike-slip tectonics along its length. Estimates...
- tectonic scale involving oblique convergent margins and transpression / transtension tectonic regimes. Convergent margins where the angle of subduction is...
- bends in the strike-slip fault, called releasing bends, can accommodate transtension, and induce the formation of pull apart basins or transtensional basins...
- George (2021). "The Santorini-Amorgos Shear Zone: Evidence for Dextral Transtension in the South Aegean Back-Arc Region, Greece". Geosciences. 11 (5). Basel...
- tension. When the curve in the fault plane moves apart, a region of transtension occurs and sometimes is large enough and long-lived enough to create...
- been taking place, as well as varying amounts of both transpression and transtension occurring before then. To the northwest of the triple junction the Pacific...
- leading to uplift on both sides of the Beqaa valley. There is local transtension in the northernmost part of the fault system, forming the Ghab pull-apart...
- The Malibu Coast—Santa Monica—Hollywood fault system is the result of transtension and transpression ****ociated with rotation of the Transverse Ranges in...