Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-513-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-513-2020
Research article
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09 Apr 2020
Research article |  | 09 Apr 2020

Abutting faults: a case study of the evolution of strain at Courthouse branch point, Moab Fault, Utah

Heijn van Gent and Janos L. Urai

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (06 Feb 2020) by Federico Rossetti
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (06 Feb 2020) by Federico Rossetti (Executive editor)
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Short summary
Faults form due to stresses caused by crustal processes. As faults influence the stress field locally, fault interaction leads to local variations in the stress field, but this is difficult to observe directly. We describe an outcrop of one fault abuting into another one. By careful measurement of structures in the overlapping deformation zones and separating them using published relative age data, we show a rotation in the local stress field resulting from the faults growing to each other