- 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...
-
parallelism with the zone itself, the
style becomes either transpressional or
transtensional depending on the
sense of deviation. Strike-slip
tectonics is characteristic...
- to be
measurable and significant. Some
oblique faults occur within transtensional and
transpressional regimes, and
others occur where the
direction of...
- can
include components of
extension and/or shortening, for
example in
transtensional or
transpressional situations,
which ultimately allow for the creation...
- Fault, both left-lateral faults, by an
aborted spreading center under a
transtensional tectonic regime.
Legaspi Lineament – long SE-trending
linear feature...
- ISSN 0091-7613. Unruh, Jeffrey; Humphrey, James; Barron,
Andrew (April 2003). "
Transtensional model for the
Sierra Nevada frontal fault system,
eastern California"...
