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Showing 1 to 20 of 358 for “"Faulting"”.
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Wrench faulting at Weyburn field, Saskatchewan
Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-65).
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The Mechanics of Active Faulting and Mountain Building
… I present a source model for a Mw 6.1 normal-faulting earthquake that occurred in the shallow crust of the south Peruvian Altiplano, which indicates that the Andes are extending parallel to the direction of shortening in the adjacent sub-Andean forelands. I then discuss a compilation of …
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Field and laboratory studies of the mechanics of faulting
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1981.
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Nonlocalized faulting in a thick lithosphere : application to lunar contraction
… For a thick elastic lithosphere the mode of faulting is less localized and many faults form in the upper part of the lithosphere, each with small displacements. Furthermore, localization in a thin lithosphere enables fault propagation through a compliant layer, such as a 1-3 km megaregolith …
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Extension and Quaternary Faulting in the Northern Central Nevada Seismic Belt
… is the basis todescribe the style and rate of faulting in the northern Central Nevada Seismic Belt.Cosmogenic depth profiles collected on alluvial surfaces displaced by multipleearthquakes at Siard Canyon in Pleasant Valley and Terrace Creek in Dixie Valley areanalyzed to show the Pleasant …
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Seismic investigation of wrench faulting and fracturing at Rulison field, Colorado
Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-121).
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Geomorphic analyses of young faulting and fault behavior in central Nevada.
… and temporal and spatial patterns and rates of faulting in central Nevada during the Holocene were assessed through geomorphic and geologic studies of young fault scarps. Ages of paleoseismic events were estimated primarily through analyses of fault scarp morphologies and characterization and …
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Processes of Progressive Deformation with Applications to Jointing, Faulting and Fluid Flow
… graben on the planet Mercury, the development of faulting in porous rock with formation of surrounding deformation band damage zones, fracturing micro-mechanisms, and fracture-governed fluid flow. Fracture geometries, development, and mechanisms were analyzed by field- and spacecraft imagery …
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Modelling Sea-Level Reconstructions from Southern Greenland: Implications for Glacially-Induced Faulting
… have led to the hypothesis of glacially-induced faulting during periods of rapid ice loss (with associated tsunami hazard). In this study, we seek to determine if quality fits to the southern Greenland relative sea level (RSL) data can be obtained by improving the GIA model and exploring the …
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3D Modelling of Faulting and Intrusion of the Nevado del Ruiz Volcano, Colombia
The Nevado del Ruiz stratovolcano is located in the Northern Andes Mountain Range of Colombia. The area has been evaluated for its geothermal potential for the past decade. Geothermal energy, once implemented, has been proven to be a stable source of baseload energy. However, geothermal projects …
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Identification, Characterization and Analysis of Wrench Related Faulting in Southwestern Warren County, Kentucky
… structures that can be traced upward through faulting from the Precambrian basement through the Knox Group and into the Mississippian section. Recent analysis of well log, seismic, and Radar images indicate extensive faulting in the Woodburn area indicative of wrench-fault related activity. A …
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Faulting, sedimentation and fluid flow at the basin margin : the north Solway fault
… to be the result of either basement-basement faulting or basement-sedimentary faulting. The results of this study show that large basin bounding faults are highly variable in both down-dip and along-strike directions.
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High-resolution temporal records of magmatism, sedimentation, and faulting at evolving plate boundaries
… was exhumed during a single period of detachment faulting.
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Neotectonic evolution of Grand Canyon : interaction between volcanism, river incision, epeirogenic uplift, and faulting
… river incision, epeirogenic uplift, and faulting on the landscape evolution of the Grand Canyon region. In the first chapter the migration of increasingly asthenospheric basaltic volcanism is used to constrain lithospheric modification of the Colorado Plateau margins. Buoyancy …
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Tectonics of the East Pacific rise : studies of faulting characteristics and magnetic and gravity anomalies
… four main topics: (1) characterization of normal faulting from Sea Beam bathymetric data, (2) application of mechanical models to explore the hypothesis that buoyancy arising from crustal magma chambers and gravitational spreading of the upper crust are the principal processes leading to the …
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Kinematics and timing of normal faulting in a metamorphic core complex: Grouse Creek Mountains, Utah
The Middle Mountain shear zone (MMSZ) and the brittle Upper detachment, two west-dipping normal fault systems, and the 25.3 Ma Red Butte stocks are exposed in a metamorphic core complex in northwest Utah, in the central Grouse Creek Mountains. 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and kinematic studies …
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Evolution of Late Cenozoic Minibasins and Growth Faulting, Green Canyon Area, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
… has a complex geologic history involving growth faulting, the emplacement of allochthonous salt bodies and the evolution of small-scale Neogene depocenters overlying the mobile salt bodies (called ‘minibasins’). My study area is located in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and lies along the …
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Tectonics of the East Pacific rise : studies of faulting characteristics and magnetic and gravity anomalies
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1995.
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