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- Earth's crust experiences both extensive and transtensive shear. As such, transtensional regions are characterised by both extensional structures (normal faults...
- p****ive margins: map-view formation geometry (rifted, sheared, and transtensional), nature of transitional crust (volcanic and non-volcanic), whether...
- of a depression formed between two sides of an active strike-slip, transtensional or normal fault zone. A sag pond is formed along a strike-slip fault...
- the shear motion is oblique. Pull-apart basins form in extensional to transtensional environments along fault bends or between two adjacent left-lateral...
- drive localized extension along alternating (left- and right- lateral) transtensional zones (e.g., pull-apart basins) over the Tiger Stripes, thereby regulating...
- to be measurable and significant. Some oblique faults occur within transtensional and transpressional regimes, and others occur where the direction of...
- 2023. Kaya, Ersin (2014). Structure and Tectonics of the Late Cenozoic Transtensional Aksu Sedimentary Basin, SW Anatolia. Retrieved 12 February 2023. Büyükşehir...
- parallelism with the zone itself, the style becomes either transpressional or transtensional depending on the sense of deviation. Strike-slip tectonics is characteristic...
- can include components of extension and/or shortening, for example in transtensional or transpressional situations, which ultimately allow for the creation...
- ISSN 0091-7613. Unruh, Jeffrey; Humphrey, James; Barron, Andrew (April 2003). "Transtensional model for the Sierra Nevada frontal fault system, eastern California"...