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Announcements Cottonwood exercise and homework are due on Thursday The project for those who missed the field trip is now available online- deadline for that is Tuesday March 25, in class (no extensions!, zero credit after deadline)
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Cottonwood trip- a few thoughts
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Changes in dips? How can you explain them?
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Definitely a fault; what kind?
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Need to think about cross- section
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Strike-slip fault systems (D&R: 357-371) 1. Tectonic settings and significance 2. Geometries 3. Active strike-slip faults- 4. mineralization + petroleum
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At the scale of plate tectonics, transform (strike-slip) plate boundaries are subordinate to convergent and divergent plate margins- but they play a critical role
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oceanic (ridge-ridge) transform faults, revisited
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Continental strike-slip faults- the San Andreas
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How deep should earthquakes be within an active strike-slip fault? Down to the brittle-ductile transition
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The Alpine fault in New Zealand transfers slip between two subduction zones (trench-trench transform)
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The North Anatolian fault-rupture near Izmit last September.
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Major active continental strike-slip faults in Asia
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tectonic extrusion or escape hypothesis
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Strike-slip faults can transfer slip between different thrust or extensional systems
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Strain can be partitioned into different styles of fault systems-
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Strain partitioning in oblique convergent margin settings
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Fault traces are rarely straight- they can curve, branch, or be arranged en echelon. This leads to a wide variety of strike-slip related deformation
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Transtension in releasing bends may lead to development of sag ponds and pull-apart basins
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Restraining bends and transpressional deformation- folds and thrusts
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The San Andreas bend near Los Angeles: thrusting related to strike-slip faulting
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Many strike-slip fault systems are characterized by faults that converge downward and form flower structures compressional setting: "positive" or "palm tree" flower structure extensional setting: "negative" or "tulip" flower structure
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Some flower structures look like duplexes turned on their side- strike-slip duplexes
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Riedel shears- especially common in strike-slip fault systems R: synthetic Riedel shear R': antithetic Riedel shear P: synthetic shear, subordinate to R and R' or absent
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summary of strike-slip-related deformation
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What is important about strike-slip faults and why do we care? 1. Many active strike-slip faults are associated with high slip rates, major earthquakes, and lithospheric plate boundaries 2. Oil and mineral exploration.
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Significance of strike-slip fault systems for oil
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Many Archean and Phanerozoic mineral deposits (especially gold) are associated with zones of strike-slip deformation
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Important terminology/concepts ridge-ridge and trench-trench transform faults concept of continental extrusion or escape strike-slip faults as transfer faults strain partitioning oblique convergence releasing vs. restraining bend transpression vs. transtension sag ponds and pull-apart basins flower structures strike-slip duplexes right-stepping vs. left-stepping fault arrays folds in strike-slip zones Riedel shears
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