Sentence examples for large fault systems from inspiring English sources

Along the graben large fault systems are present under the north south extensional stress regime, which produces both strike-slip and normal faulting earthquakes (Matsumoto et al. 2015).

Ritter et al. (2005) reviewed some of the large fault systems mentioned above (namely AvF, WF and SAF), compared their electrical properties, and proposed some Earth models that attempted to decipher the electrical information in a geological sense.

Basin boundaries include several large anticline and syncline systems on the east and west, and large fault systems in the south (Fig. 1) which are primarily a product of the ancestral Rocky Mountain orogeny (McBride and Nelson 1999).

The fault zone is located in the eastern margin area of the Tibetan plateau, and is a portion of a larger fault system forming the eastern edge of the Sichuan-Yunnan active tectonic block.

The Rhine Graben tectonics yields large differential stress levels and favors therefore the existence of large fault and fracture systems.

This area, mostly constituted by the Hyblean Plateau, is located on the footwall of a large normal fault system which since the Middle Pleistocene has reactivated the Malta Escarpment (Hirn et al., 1997; Bianca et al., 1999), a Meso-zoic boundary separating the continental domain from the oceanic crust of the Ionian basin (Scandone et al., 1981; Sartori et al., 1991; Argnani and Bonazzi, 2005).

The compressional structures were connected in places with extensional structures through large strike-slip fault systems, the best-known of which runs through the Fergana Valley in southern Central Asia.

We find that small-scale faulting and fracturing at Yucca Mountain is variable and is strongly controlled by larger scale fault system architecture.

The flow properties of the model were then upscaled to simulate the entire reservoir through combining the flow properties of the jointed matrix (represented by an equivalent permeability tensor) with those of the large-scale fault system (which was modelled explicitly) in a dual-permeability system.

However, instead of an ascending middle crust, Canales et al. (2008) report that a deeper crust consisting predominantly of gabbro was exhumed at several oceanic core complexes, which are large-offset normal fault systems commonly referred to as oceanic detachment faults on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Although the lower (ca. 18 to 19 Ma) and upper (<18 Ma) parts of the formation may represent rifting under a transtensional regime and development of elongate basins along the large strike-slip fault system, respectively, further investigations of the stratigraphy and sedimentary facies will be necessary to elucidate the tectonic context of this intriguing unit.