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- Transtension is the state in which a rock m**** or area of the Earth's crust experiences both extensive and transtensive shear. As such, transtensional...
- earthquakes with a south block up and west oblique sense of movement. Transtension regimes are oblique tensional environments. Oblique, normal geologic...
- George (2021). "The Santorini-Amorgos Shear Zone: Evidence for Dextral Transtension in the South Aegean Back-Arc Region, Greece". Geosciences. 11 (5). Basel...
- tectonics Structural geology Transtension Dewey, J. F.; Holdsworth, R. E.; Strachan, R. A. (1998-01-01). "Transpression and transtension zones". Geological Society...
- LUYENDYK, BRUCE P. (1991-11-01). "A model for Neogene crustal rotations, transtension, and transpression in southern California". GSA Bulletin. 103 (11): 1528...
- bends in the strike-slip fault, called releasing bends, can accommodate transtension, and induce the formation of pull apart basins or transtensional basins...
- tectonic scale involving oblique convergent margins and transpression / transtension tectonic regimes. Convergent margins where the angle of subduction is...
- Transtension and transpression of a right lateral fault. Combined data from illustrations and text....
- transpression and transtension phases. High rates of magma generation coincided with a c. 418–404 Ma Early Devonian sinistral transtension phase. This decreased...
- strike-slip, ****ociated with intermittent dextral transpression and transtension. Between the Clogher Valley Fault and the Southern Upland Fault, the...