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Tilted block faulting, also called rotational block faulting, is a mode of structural evolution in extensional tectonic events, a result of tectonic plates stretching apart. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When the upper lithospheric crust experiences extensional pressures, the brittle crust fractures, creating detachment faults . [ 3 ]
UTC time: 1983-10-28 14:06:09: ISC event: 567352: USGS-ANSSComCat: Local date: October 28, 1983 (): Local time: 08:06 MDT [1]: Magnitude: 6.9 M w [1]: Depth: 16 km (9.9 mi) [2] Epicenter: 2]: Fault: Lost River Fault [3]: Type: Normal [3]: Areas affected: Central Idaho United States: Total damage: $12.5 million [4]: Max. intensity: MMI IX (Violent) [4]: Landslides: Yes: Aftershocks: 5.6 M w Oct ...
Lifted fault-block geology Tilted fault-block formation in the Teton Range. Fault-block mountains often result from rifting, an indicator of extensional tectonics. These can be small or form extensive rift valley systems, such as the East African Rift zone. Death Valley in California is a smaller example.
NASA satellite photo of typical Basin and Range topography across central Nevada. The Basin and Range Province includes much of western North America.In the United States, it is bordered on the west by the eastern fault scarp of the Sierra Nevada and spans over 500 miles (800 km) to its eastern border marked by the Wasatch Fault, the Colorado Plateau and the Rio Grande Rift.
Through a combination of uplift of the Sierran block and down-dropping of the area to the east, the Sierra rose upward. Rising far more steeply to the east than the west, the entire Sierra Nevada can be thought of as an enormous tilted fault block with a long, gentle slope westward to California's Central Valley and steep eastern slope. [2]
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The presence of detritus from the Idaho Batholith [72] indicates a former location closer to southern Idaho. Some of these faults possibly developed in the Mesozoic, when these deposits were in the accretionary wedge; [ 72 ] the cross-cutting NE and NNE-striking faults that form the various basins resulted from a subsequent change to transtension.
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