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horsetail splay
Compression
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Dilation
Compression
Termination of dextral strike-slip faults by formation of imbricate fans (after Freund, 1974)
A. Geometry of extensional imbricate fans. B. Extensional normal faulting at the termination. C. Geometry of contractional imbricate fans. D. Contractional folding and thrust faulting at the termination. E. Geometry of a horsetail splay of strike-slip faults. (with a simple experiment)
Termination of sinistral north-southtrending faults by formation of eastwest-trending thrust imbricate fan, Southern Pakistan
Key Words: Contractional imbricate fan Sinistral strike-slip faults Conjugate faults
(From the geological map of Pakistan, with interpretation after Lawrence and Yeats, 1978)
Strike-slip fault system related to India-Eurasia Collision (Tapponnier and Molnar, 1977)
Horsetail splay at the termination of Hope Fault, New Zealand (Freund, 1974)
An transtensional duplex developing on the active Dasht-E Bayaz fault in northeastern Iran (Tchalenko and Ambraseys, 1970)
Seismic profile of a positive flower structure from a transpressional duplex on a sinistral strike-slip fault, Ardmore Basin, Oklahoma
Seismic profile of a negative flower structure from a transtensional duplex on a dextral strike-slip fault (Harding 1985) (Harding,1985)
Strike-slip fault system A- Local compressional and extensional structures produced by fault terminations and fault overlaps. B-Formation of raised and depressed wedgeshaped blocks by local transpression and transtension. C- Positive and negative flower structures produced by convergence and divergence respectively in strike-slip motion D-Strike-slip duplex
Madiyi
Ximeishan
The Angara graben, a major pull-apart basin northeast of Lake Baikal in Siberia (From Tapponnier and Molnar,1979)
Strike-slip fault system related to India-Eurasia Collision (Tapponnier and Molnar, 1977)
Physical Modeling of Pull-apart Basin ( Breat Rahe, David Ferrill and Alan Morris, 1998)
Earthquake distribution and San Andreas strike-slip fault system , southern California (From Twiss & Moores, 2007)