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    In geology, transpression is a type of strike-slip deformation that deviates from simple shear because of a simultaneous component of shortening perpendicular...
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    rotated porphyroclasts asymmetric boudins (Figure 1) asymmetric folds Transpression regimes are formed during oblique collision of tectonic plates and during...
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    dominant structures are interpreted as having resulted from sinistral transpression, which involved strain partitioning of regional deformation between...
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  • expressed at the tectonic scale involving oblique convergent margins and transpression / transtension tectonic regimes. Convergent margins where the angle...
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    called the Laramide orogeny. In particular a large area of dextral transpression and southwest-directed thrust faulting was active from 75 to 66 million...
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    North American Plate but can't break them off. Rather, the resulting transpression force pushes up the local terrain and helps explain why these are the...
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  • involve strike slip with a minor shortening/compressional component. Transpression is seen along bends in strike slip fault zones where the land is forced...
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    dynamics of the orogen are currently under investigation, including; The Transpression model (by SRK Ltd) considers the Petermann Orogen to be caused by transpressional...
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  • the north of the island of Hispaniola. It has formed as a result of transpression along the southern margin of the North American Plate. The strike-slip...
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  • seismic events, most less than 20 km (12 mi) deep, characterize the transpression along this plate boundary. The trench is named in honour of the Norwegian...
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    and strain partitioning in the south along Haida Gwaii, distributed transpression in the central segment, and highly localized strike-slip deformation...
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  • were affected by strike-slip, associated with intermittent dextral transpression and transtension. Between the Clogher Valley Fault and the Southern...
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    the following: The Meadow Grounds syncline west of McConnellsburg. A transpression structure is located on the east side of the Meadow Grounds syncline...
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    Plate has created a strike slip basin. The opposite effect is that of transpression, where converging movement of a curved fault plane causes collision...
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    Coast—Santa Monica—Hollywood fault system is the result of transtension and transpression associated with rotation of the Transverse Ranges in the Cenozoic Era...
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  • locations for extensional and compressional stress or transtension and transpression stress, if the shear motion is oblique. Pull-apart basins form in extensional...
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    "Uplift and erosion of the San Bernardino Mountains associated with transpression along the San Andreas Fault, California, as constrained by radiogenic...
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    (1991-11-01). "A model for Neogene crustal rotations, transtension, and transpression in southern California". GSA Bulletin. 103 (11): 1528. Bibcode:1991GSAB...
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    water sandstones) and shallow marine siliciclastic reservoir rocks. The transpression due to the influence of the Caribbean plate created several sub-basins...
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    John; Stevenson, Carl T.; Petronis, Michael S. (2015). "Late Caledonian transpression and the structural controls on pluton construction; new insights from...
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    Fault, with a segment of inverted basin along the southern edge due to transpression. The study discussed the short-lived nature of the releasing bend (on...
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  • California San Diego. Retrieved 18 August 2022. Štěpančíková, Petra. "Transpression; Pressure ridge" (PDF). Tectonic geomorphology and paleoseismology....
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    12955. ISSN 1086-9379. Kenkmann, T.; von Dalwigk I. (2000). "Radial transpression ridges: A new structural feature of complex impact craters". Meteoritics...
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    North American Plate but can't break them off. Rather, the resulting transpression force pushes up the local terrain and helps explain why these are the...
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    ; Meghraoui M.; Barazangi M. (2007). "Strain partitioning of active transpression within the Lebanese restraining bend of the Dead Sea Fault (Lebanon...
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    isolate the block. Transpression of 15–30 mm/yr since 5 Ma has been taking place, as well as varying amounts of both transpression and transtension occurring...
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    (1991). "A model for Neogene crustal rotations, transtension, and transpression in southern California". Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol...
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    accommodates a component of north–south shortening. This has led to overall transpression along the main strike-slip faults. The largest earthquake in the region...
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    White, Elizabeth MacInnes, and Carlos G. Roselli, 2005, Field Trip B7 Transpression and transtension along a continental transform fault: Minas Fault Zone...
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    ; White, J. C.; MacInnes, E.; Roselli, C. G. (2005). Field Trip B7: Transpression and transtension along a continental transform fault: Minas Fault Zone...
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