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5 Announcements Mihai's lectures are available on web Field trip during lab this week Posta-Quemada fold exercise- due Wed in lecture Nov. 13: Draft of fault paper due in lecture!

6 Strike-slip fault systems (D&R: 357-371) 1. Tectonic settings and significance 2. Geometries 3. Active strike-slip faults- EQs! 4. mineralization + petroleum

7 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

8 oceanic (ridge-ridge) transform faults, revisited

9 Continental strike-slip faults- the San Andreas

10 The Alpine fault in New Zealand transfers slip between two subduction zones (trench-trench transform) What is the sense of slip?

11 Major active continental strike-slip faults in Asia

12 tectonic extrusion or escape hypothesis

13 Strike-slip faults can transfer slip between different thrust or extensional systems

14 Strain can be partitioned into different styles of fault systems- analyze with vector diagrams

15 Strain partitioning in oblique convergent margin settings

16 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

17 Transtension in releasing bends may lead to development of sag ponds and pull-apart basins

18 Restraining bends and transpressional deformation- folds and thrusts

19 The San Andreas bend near Los Angeles: thrusting related to strike-slip faulting

20 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

21 Some flower structures look like duplexes turned on their side- strike-slip duplexes

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23 Riedel shears, revisited- 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

24 Altyn Tagh fault, China

25 summary of strike-slip-related deformation

26 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 Big faults yield big quakes + lots of people = trouble! e.g., San Andreas fault, Anatolian fault in Turkey, strike-slip faults in Asia

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29 Significance of strike-slip fault systems for oil

30 Many Archean and Phanerozoic mineral deposits (especially gold) are associated with zones of strike-slip deformation

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33 镜头指向:北东

34 镜头指向:南

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37 斜列式地震裂缝。 镜头指向:东

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41 NEXT LECTURE: Cleavages and passive folding (D&R pp. 424-456)

42 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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