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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...
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earthquakes with a
south block up and west
oblique sense of movement.
Transtension regimes are
oblique tensional environments. Oblique,
normal geologic...
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tectonic scale involving oblique convergent margins and
transpression /
transtension tectonic regimes.
Convergent margins where the
angle of
subduction is...
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George (2021). "The Santorini-Amorgos
Shear Zone:
Evidence for
Dextral Transtension in the
South Aegean Back-Arc Region, Greece". Geosciences. 11 (5). Basel...
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leading to
uplift on both
sides of the
Beqaa valley.
There is
local transtension in the
northernmost part of the
fault system,
forming the Ghab pull-apart...
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curve in the
fault plane moves apart, a
region of
transtension occurs and
sometimes is
large enough and long-lived
enough to create...
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bends in the strike-slip fault,
called releasing bends, can
accommodate transtension, and
induce the
formation of pull
apart basins or
transtensional basins...
- LUYENDYK,
BRUCE P. (1991-11-01). "A
model for
Neogene crustal rotations,
transtension, and
transpression in
southern California". GSA Bulletin. 103 (11): 1528...
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Malibu Coast—Santa Monica—Hollywood
fault system is the
result of
transtension and
transpression ****ociated with
rotation of the
Transverse Ranges in...
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Range Province.
Bimodal volcanism has also been
described from
areas of
transtension, the
early phases of back-arc
basin formation and in the
products of...
