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Features from the field: Growth Faults

January 30, 2017
Features from the field: Growth Faults
Displacement rate along the fault is not same.

Growth faults are syndepositional or syn-sedimentary extensional faults. Growth faults develop when sediments are being deposited, are key elements in understanding deformation processes. Indeed, successively deposited sedimentary layers are involved in the different stages of the growth of the structure and produce a record of the deformation history. Their fault plane dips mostly toward the basi ...[Read More]

Features from the field: Soft Sediment Structures

October 17, 2016
Features from the field: Soft Sediment Structures
Figure 1. Soft sediment deformation (Slump) in Dead Sea sediments, Israel. Possibly a seismite.

Today’s topic in Features of the Field is the well-known soft-sediment deformation; one of the most common phenomena which develop during, or shortly after deposition. The sediments; for this reason, need to be “liquid-like” or unsolidified for the deformation to occur. The most common places for soft-sediment deformations to form are deep water basins with turbidity currents, rivers, ...[Read More]

Features from the field: Slickenside Lineations

August 22, 2016
Features from the field: Slickenside Lineations
Slickenside lineations developed within the Eocene limestone in the East Anatolian Fault Zone

In this Tectonics and Structural Geology blog we will use different categories for our blog-posts. The first category we present to you is all about field geology: “Features from the field”. One of our bloggers, Mehmet Köküm, spends a lot of time in the field for his PhD and will share some of the features used in structural geology with us. This edition of ‘Features of the Field’ will be all abou ...[Read More]