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Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-935-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-935-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
Research article
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28 May 2020
Research article |  | 28 May 2020

Throw variations and strain partitioning associated with fault-bend folding along normal faults

Efstratios Delogkos, Muhammad Mudasar Saqab, John J. Walsh, Vincent Roche, and Conrad Childs

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Short summary
Normal faults have irregular geometries on a range of scales. A quantitative model has been presented which illustrates the range of deformation arising from movement on fault surface irregularities, with fault-bend folding generating geometries reminiscent of normal drag and reverse drag. We show that fault throw can be subject to errors of up to ca. 50 % for realistic fault bend geometries (up to ca. 40°), even on otherwise sub-planar faults with constant displacement.
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