Sentence examples for tilted blocks from inspiring English sources

Faults and warping occur at the contacts between proximal and distal tilted blocks.

The tilted blocks rest along listric faults on the substratum (Tarawan Chalk and Esna Shale Formations) and abut the Theban cliffs.

We hypothesize that the emplacements of the tilted blocks were related to major Pleistocene pluvial episodes, each marked by active flow of the Nile River and significant recess of the Theban cliffs.

The integrated geological study reveals relatively condensed but generally continuous sedimentation and a rugged substrate with horsts, grabens and tilted blocks due to the initiation and the individualization of Kerkennah arch throughout the studied geological times.

The desertic Theban hills between the edge of the alluvial plain of the Nile River and the prominent cliffs at the eastern edge of the Theban Plateau consist of imbricated tilted blocks organized in parallel groups representing successive generations of gravitational collapse structures (or slumps).

The V p structure shows tilted blocks and the block boundaries coincide with the revealed west-dipping faults.

The plateau is laced with northerly trending rift zones that are bounded by northerly trending tilted, block-faulted mountains.

It has long been recognized that the Sierra Nevada is an upfaulted, tilted block of the Earth's crust.

The main Bou Dabbous source rock is thicker and more mature within the central-east of the Gulf of Gabes indicating therefore the southeast charge of Reineche reservoir which shows NW-SE trending tilted block system surrounded by normal faults representing the hydrocarbon migration pathways.

Three main morphotectonic regions were identified in Jamaica: (1) the Blue Mountain Wagwater unit located at the eastern tip of the island, (2) the Jamaican highlands plateau which covers most of the northern and central areas and (3) the tilted block province located along the southern part of Jamaica.

Therefore, these large enveloped and tilted sedimentary blocks are interpreted as collapsed hot spring terraces or pool margins such as those observed in modern geothermal areas (Fig. 3d).