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Because strike-slip duplexes structures have more horizontal motion than vertical motion, they are best observed on a map rather than a vertical projection and are a good indication that the main fault has a strike-slip motion. [9] An example of strike-slip duplexes is observed in the Lambertville sill, New Jersey. [12] Flemington and the ...
A sag pond is formed along a strike-slip fault, which may create a depression in the earth. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] When water enters the depression from rivers, streams, rainfall or snowfall, it fills the low-lying area, and a pond is the result.
A fault bend, or fault stepover, forms when individual segments of the fault overlap and link together. The type of structures which form along the strike-slip fault depend on the sense of slip relative to the sense of stepping. When a sinistral fault steps to the right or a dextral fault steps to the left, a restraining bend is formed. [2]
Lateral strike-slip faults. Strike-slip faults occur when the blocks slide against each other laterally, parallel to the plane. The direction of the slip can be observed from either side of the fault, with the far block moving to the left indicating a left lateral slip, and the converse indicating a right lateral slip. See animation here [5]
Strike-slip faults are associated with dominantly horizontal movement, leading to relatively simple linear zones of surface rupture where the fault is a simple planar structure. However, many strike-slip faults are formed of overlapping segments, leading to complex zones of normal or reverse faulting depending on the nature of the overlap.
Strike-slip faults with left-lateral motion are also known as sinistral faults and those with right-lateral motion as dextral faults. [18] Each is defined by the direction of movement of the ground as would be seen by an observer on the opposite side of the fault. A special class of strike-slip fault is the transform fault when it forms a plate ...
The East Anatolian Fault is a strike-slip fault. In those, solid rock plates are pushing up against each other across a vertical fault line, building stress until one finally slips in a horizontal ...
Strike-slip faults are commonly almost vertically inclined faults, where the main displacement and slip is in the horizontal direction, parallel to the strike of the fault. Depending on the movement of the fault blocks relative to the fault plane, strike-slip faults can be classified as either sinistral (left-lateral displacement) or dextral ...