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Low-angle Faults

Low-Angle Faults is a structural geological construct denoting a fracture or shear zone in the Earth's crust where the dip angle relative to the horizontal is less than 30 degrees, distinguished from high-angle faults by its shallow inclination and commonly associated with large-scale crustal extension or compression in marine tectonic settings.

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Low-angle Fault

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286

Low-angle normal faults in the Basin and Range Province: nappe tectonics in an extending orogen

Brian P. Wernicke · Nature · 1981 · 1.2K citations

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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY IN THE EASTERN MARGIN OF THE CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS

Clinton D. A. Dahlstrom · Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology · 1970 · 723 citations

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flexural rotation of normal faults

W. Roger Buck · Tectonics · 1988 · 635 citations

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Flexural rotation of normal faults

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts · 1989 · 533 citations

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Strain, deformation temperatures and vorticity of flow at the top of the Greater Himalayan Slab, Everest Massif, Tibet

Richard D. Law, M. P. Searle, R.L. Simpson · Journal of the Geological Society · 2004 · 407 citations

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Authors

790

  1. CC
    Cristiano Collettini

    Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

    9 publications · 1K citations

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  2. MP
    M. P. Searle

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. WR
    W. Roger Buck

    Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, United States

    5 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. PB
    Pierre Briole

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    5 publications · 351 citations

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  5. MR
    Massimiliano Rinaldo Barchi

    University of Perugia, Italy

    5 publications · 382 citations

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295

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    13 h-index

    26 publications

    1.6K citations

  2. University of Perugia

    Perugia, Italy

    12 h-index

    21 publications

    2.2K citations

  3. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    11 h-index

    23 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

    Sparkill, United States

    11 h-index

    18 publications

    1.1K citations

  5. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    11 h-index

    18 publications

    1.1K citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    14 publications

    2.8K citations

  7. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

    Rome, Italy

    9 h-index

    39 publications

    6K citations

  8. Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    1.4K citations

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  1. Geology

    26 publications · 2.9K citations

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  2. Geological Society London Special Publications

    23 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. Journal of the Geological Society

    JGS · 22 publications · 1.8K citations

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  4. Tectonics

    19 publications · 1.7K citations

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  5. Geological Society of America Bulletin

    16 publications · 1.1K citations

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