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Detachment Fault Systems

Detachment Fault Systems is a structural geological construct characterized by low-angle normal faults that accommodate large-scale crustal extension by decoupling overlying brittle crustal blocks from ductilely deforming basement rocks beneath.

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An indentation model for the North and South China collision and the development of the Tan‐Lu and Honam Fault Systems, eastern Asia

An Yin, Shangyou Nie · Tectonics · 1993 · 1K citations

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The origin of metamorphic core complexes and detachment faults formed during Tertiary continental extension in the northern Colorado River region, U.S.A.

Gordon Lister, G. A. Davis · Journal of Structural Geology · 1989 · 935 citations

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Detachment faulting and the evolution of passive continental margins

Gordon Lister, M. A. Etheridge, Philip A. Symonds · Geology · 1986 · 879 citations

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Megamullions and mullion structure defining oceanic metamorphic core complexes on the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

Brian E. Tucholke, Jian Lin, Martin C. Kleinrock · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1998 · 556 citations · Full text

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Formation and enrichment mode of Jiaoshiba shale gas field, Sichuan Basin

Tonglou Guo, Hanrong Zhang · Petroleum Exploration and Development · 2014 · 521 citations · Full text

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    Barbara E. John

    University of Wyoming, United States

    18 publications · 1.5K citations

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    T. J. Reston

    University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

    11 publications · 673 citations

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    Giänreto Manatschal

    Université de Strasbourg, France

    10 publications · 540 citations

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    Uwe Ring

    Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

    10 publications · 942 citations

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    J.E. Spencer

    Arizona Geological Survey, United States

    9 publications · 542 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    30 h-index

    102 publications

    8.3K citations

  2. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Falmouth, United States

    19 h-index

    61 publications

    7K citations

  3. Institut de physique du globe de Paris

    Paris, France

    16 h-index

    30 publications

    2.3K citations

  4. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    15 h-index

    18 publications

    1.4K citations

  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    12 h-index

    18 publications

    1.8K citations

  6. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    12 h-index

    21 publications

    1.7K citations

  7. University of Wyoming

    Laramie, United States

    12 h-index

    25 publications

    1.8K citations

  8. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    11 h-index

    17 publications

    611 citations

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  1. Tectonics

    66 publications · 6K citations

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  2. Geology

    38 publications · 4.1K citations

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  3. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

    35 publications · 2.1K citations

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  4. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 27 publications · 2.9K citations

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  5. Geological Society London Special Publications

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