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These normal fault sets: (1) form five temporally distinct episodes that correspond to regional tectonic events; (2) record a rotation in the stress field through time; and (3) locally developed within a three dimensional strain field as opposed to plane strain; The Sand Spring, Ike Spring, and Indian Spring thrusts (previously undocumented) regionally correlate to the Duckwater and White Pine thrusts. These thrust faults have steeply-dipping ramps and formed out-of-sequence. These structures represent the CNTB in east-central Nevada, a single contractional belt with at least 27 km of shortening.","abstract_html":"The central Nevada thrust belt (CNTB) is a north-south trending belt of contractile structures in the hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt. 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