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Strike-Slip Faulting
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Outline Tectonic setting –Transform plate boundaries –Escape structures in the hinterland of plate collision zones –Transfer zones in thrust belts or normal fault systems -Development of a strike slip fault -Strain within a strike slip shear zone –en echelon structures -Releasing bends and restraining bends
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Plate Motions Transform Plate Boundaries
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Transform: Link between other kind of plate boundaries
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San Andreas System
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Evolution of the Plate Boundary
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Oceanic Transforms Age of the Ocean Floor map
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Oceanic Transform Fault
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Intraplate Deformation: Continental Collisions
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Lateral Escape
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Transfer zones in Thrust and Extensional Systems
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Lateral Ramps in the Appalachians
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Link between Two segments of a rift
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Bends in Strike-slip Faults Releasing bend
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Bends in Strike-slip Faults Restraining bend
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Flower Structures
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Positive Flower Structure Ardmore Basin, Oklahoma
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Transverse Ranges-San Andreas Fault
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Development of a Strike-slip fault Clay cake experiments (Wilcox, Hardy and Seely, 1973)
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En Echelon Fractures Large strike-slip faults start as a set of shorter fractures arranged En Echelon.
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En Echelon Fractures
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Orientation of Folds and Thrusts Right-lateral Strike-slip
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Orientation of Normal faults and Veins Right-lateral Strike-slip
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