One may think of ocean waves, air waves, or seismic waves, which are caused by earthquakes. Wind can exert force on large bodies of water, producing waves in the water. When people move their arms, that movement disturbs the air around them, creating air waves. Earthquakes cause ...
Regional-scale similarities of the salt basins include the progressive complication of salt-related structures basinward, the change from an extensional domain on the shelf to a compressional domain on the slope and the presence of a toe-thrust front at the oceanward edge of the basins. Regional...
parallel to the compressional force. Thefaultplane is essentially vertical, and the relative slip is lateral along the plane. Strike-slip faults are right lateral or left lateral, depending on whether the block on the opposite side of the fault from an observer has moved to the right or left...