transcurrent fault

[¦tranz¦kə·rənt ′fȯlt]

(geology)

A strike-slip fault characterized by a steeply inclined surface. Also known as transverse thrust.

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Desert Gold's acquisition of Ashanti increases the Company's land position along and near the Senegal Mali Shear Zone and Main Transcurrent Fault Zone by 28% to 296.9 km2.

Desert Gold Completes Acquisition Of Ashanti Gold Corp

(2006) The Structural Significance Kareh Bas Transcurrent Fault System in the Zagros Fold and Thrust Belt, Geosciences.

Seismotectonic-geologic hazards zoning of Iran

Structural Analysis of Mengharak Transcurrent Fault System in Zagros, Iran, Special Geo Conference Issue Geoarabia, 7(2): 209-210.

Tectonic geomorphplogy of Hamedan-Sosangerd region, west Iran

Pourkermani, 2002," Structural Analysis of Mengharak Transcurrent Fault System in Zagros", Iran.

Khan-e Khamis structural analysis and morphotectonics based on GIS information

The Norumbega fault system (NFS), originally named as "Norumbega fault" north of Penobscot Bay (Stewart and Wones 1974; Wones 1978), has been recognized recently as one of the largest transcurrent fault systems in the northern Appalachian orogen (Hubbard et al.

Evidence for post-Acadian through Alleghanian deformation in eastern Maine: multiple brittle reactivation of the Norumbega fault system

But the brittle fault system is wholly different (including the eastern marginal fault of Boskovice graben and the Diendorf fault), created during younger Variscides and repeately reactivated after Variscan period, which is yet generated as the most of transcurrent faults in the detachment level of some "undermoldanubian" unit (Moravicum, Brunnia unit).

Movement tendencies in the Moravia region: Kinematical model

Los Cayos Basin is considered to be a transpressional basin in which normal and transcurrent faults interact (Vargas, 2004).

Estratigrafia sismica de la Cuenca los Cayos

Fitch T.J., "Plate convergence, transcurrent faults and internal deformation adjacent to Southeast Asia and Western Pacific", Journal Geophysics no.

Damages of infrastructures in the disaster of 26 Dec 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Aceh-Indonesia

These lineaments were defined as Group 2 transcurrent faults by Williams et al.

The geology and hydrogeology of faults on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: an overview

Besides the strike dextral component, the Detmarovice zone has the character of flexure disturbed by the system of transcurrent faults (the Detmarovice fault, the Eleonora fault, the Zofie and the Jindfich faults).

Structural and stress analysis in mining practice in the upper Silesian coal basin

2000), caused by oblique convergence: thrusting is located along the low-angle South Caribbean Margin fault, whereas dextral shearing is absorbed along major transcurrent faults located at the rear of the prism (Oca-Ancon, San Sebastian and the Pilar faults).

State of strain and stress in northwestern of South America

But the brittle fault system is wholly different (including the eastern marginal fault of Boskovice Furrow and the Diendorf fault), created during younger variscides and repeately reactivated after-variscan period, which is yet generated as the most of transcurrent faults in the detachment level of some "undermoldanubian" unit (Moravicum, Brunnia unit).

Geological constraints on the GPS and precice levelling measurements along the Diendorf-Cebin tectonic zone