Introduction to the geometry and growth of normal faults

C Childs, RE Holdsworth, CAL Jackson… - Geological Society …, 2017 - lyellcollection.org
… address these models of fault growth, but most do make directly relevant geometrical
observations on displacement distributions on faults. Several papers directly address these …

The geometry and growth of normal faults

C Childs, RE Holdsworth, CAL Jackson, T Manzocchi… - 2017 - books.google.com
Normal faults are the primary structures that accommodate extension of the brittle crust. This
volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research into the geometry and growth of …

Three-dimensional geometry and growth of conjugate normal faults

A Nicol, JJ Walsh, J Watterson, PG Bretan - Journal of Structural Geology, 1995 - Elsevier
Normal fault systems often show intcrsectlng. opposcddipping faults or fault arrays, or …
To address these problems WC have analyzed conjugate normal faults in seismic reflection …

Geometry and development of relay ramps in normal fault systems

DCP Peacock, DJ Sanderson - AAPG bulletin, 1994 - archives.datapages.com
Normal fault zones play a major role in the development of basins and in the migration and
… The mapping of normal fault systems using seismic data requires careful correlation of faults

The geometrical evolution of normal fault systems

J Jackson, D McKenzie - Journal of Structural Geology, 1983 - Elsevier
… of isolated faults and the interaction of such faults with each … is to examine the geometry of
normal faults and the kinematic … geometry of individual normal faults. Two features of isolated …

How do normal faults grow?

A Rotevatn, CAL Jackson, ABM Tvedt, RE Bell… - Journal of Structural …, 2019 - Elsevier
… -series fault displacement and length (DL) data, we demonstrate that both models are
applicable to the growth of normal faults, with each describing temporally distinct aspects of fault

The geometry of normal faults

A Roberts, G Yielding, B Freeman - Journal of the Geological …, 1990 - lyellcollection.org
… In recent years the literature on normal faults … to fault development: (1) that normal faults
develop as linked systems of listric faults across the entire range of scales, (2) that normal faults

Geometric controls on the evolution of normal fault systems

JJ Walsh, C Childs, V Meyer, T Manzocchi… - Geological Society …, 2001 - lyellcollection.org
growth of normal fault arrays is examined in basins where sedimentation rates were higher
than fault displacement rates and where fault growth … of the growth history of normal faults for …

Fault dimensions, displacements and growth

J Watterson - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 1986 - Springer
… to the fault. The nomenclature used is illustrated in Figure 1, which shows the essential
geometry of an ideal simple normal fault which does not intersect a free surface, ie a blind fault. …

Normal fault growth: evolution of tipline shapes and slip distribution

EJM Willemse, DD Pollard - Aspects of Tectonic Faulting: In Honour of …, 2000 - Springer
… of the 3D geometry of ancient faults suggest that single, continuous normal faults have …
However, many examples of normal faults are not continuous, but consist of distinct, overstepping …