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This suggests a temporal change in the physico-chemical behavior of the fluid along the thrust, which may occur in response to a seismic cycle.
The vertical displacement is about 200 m, and the displacement along the thrust fault is about 1.4 km (Fig. 11).
During this time, the evaporites were not in equilibrium, and they started to move along the thrust fault and tectonically depressive loops, causing the complication of the thrust and subthrust complexes.
Jones studied the fault 25 years ago as a major threat because plate motions are pushing the mountains in the west upward and to the east along the thrust fault and over the basin.
Assuming a geothermal gradient of 28 to 47°C km−1 and a fault dip angle of approximately 10°, the thermal gap corresponds to 8.6 to 14.4 km displacement along the thrust in the seismogenic zone (Kondo et al. 2005).
The ophiolitic rocks emplaced to the Lake Van Basin along the thrust planes during the Paleotectonic period (before Neogene) constituted the rugged mountainous morphology in the region (Yılmaz et al., 1993; Parlak et al., 2000).
The 70°C temperature difference between the hanging wall and footwall is explained by the displacement of approximately 8.6 to 14.4 km along the thrust under a depth of up to 11 km beneath the seafloor (Kondo et al. 2005; Hara and Kimura 2008; Raimbourg et al. 2009).
The high values of stream length gradient (SL) and stream steepness (Ks) indices together with field evidence of fault scarps, offset of terraces, and deflection of streams are markers of neotectonic uplift along the thrusts and transverse faults.
The Chilean earthquake occurred along a thrust fault, in which most of the motion is vertical.
