The Earth's continental skin has been cracked many times in many places during the last
several billion years. The resulting rifts number in the hundreds (Burke 1978, Ramberg & …

Cross-section restoration typically assumes plane-strain deformation and area conservation,
constraints that are usually invalid for salt because of its characteristic three-dimensional …

将生长断层的落差定义为两盘地层厚度之差, 将其某时期古落差定义为该时期两盘沉积的厚度差
. 生长断层落差可以根据对构造演化剖面或地质剖面的直接测量而计算, 也可以对经时深转换的 …

Brittle microtectonics as defined here is the application of mesofracture analysis to the
solution of tectonic problems. For the determination of regionally significant stress or strain …

Extensional tectonism produces characteristic half-graben/tilt-block systems whose facies
mosaics are influenced by tectonically induced slopes resulting from hanging wall …

A new model for the structural development of extensional basins is outlined. The model
suggests a close similarity in geometry between faults in high extension basins such as the …

The Western rift, the western branch of the East African rift system, is bordered by high-angle
normal fault systems bounding one side of spoon-shaped basins. Depth-to-detachment …

The graben basins around the Ordos block are major tectonic features of late Cenozoic
extension in north China. This paper gives a synthetic view of the basic characteristics of the …

We report on the topographic roughness measurements of five exhumed faults and thirteen
surface earthquake ruptures over a large range of scales: from 50 μm to 50 km. We used …

Observations of present-day normal faulting in regions of active continental extension may
be helpful when interpreting the geological record in older extensional basins. The most …