Cross-section diagram of the frontal part of a thin-skinned thrust zone
Thrust tectonics or contractional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the shortening and thickening of the crust or lithosphere. It is one of the three main types of tectonic regime, the others being extensional tectonics and strike-slip tectonics. These match the three types of plate boundary, convergent (thrust), divergent (extensional) and transform (strike-slip). There are two main types of thrust tectonics, thin-skinned and thick-skinned, depending on whether or not basement rocks are involved in the deformation. The principle geological environments where thrust tectonics is observed are zones of continental collision, restraining bends on strike-slip faults and as part of detached fault systems on some passive margins.[1]
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Thrusttectonics or contractional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the shortening and...
layer is present. Thrusttectonics is associated with the shortening and thickening of the crust, or the lithosphere. This type of tectonics is found at zones...
and thrust belt (FTB) is a series of mountainous foothills adjacent to an orogenic belt, which forms due to contractional tectonics. Fold and thrust belts...
[citation needed] Active tectonics will increase the likelihood of salt structures developing. In the case of extensional tectonics, faulting will both reduce...
— the collision of the continental crust of two tectonic plates, namely, the Indian Plate thrusting into the Eurasian Plate. The Himalaya-Tibet region...
otherwise fallen out of use. Fold mountains form in areas of thrusttectonics, such as where two tectonic plates move towards each other at convergent plate boundary...
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(1999). "Uplift and convergence along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust of India". Tectonics. 18 (6): 967–976. Bibcode:1999Tecto..18..967W. doi:10.1029/1999TC900026...
pp. 335–352 In McClay, K. R. and Price, N.J. (editors) (1981) Thrust and Nappe Tectonics (Geological Society of London Special Publication 9) Blackwell...
This is a list of articles related to plate tectonics and tectonic plates. Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining...
thrust (German: Glarner Überschiebung) is a major thrust fault in the Alps of eastern Switzerland. Along the thrust the Helvetic nappes were thrust more...
Extensional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the stretching of a planetary body's crust...
layering is caused by the stacking of thrust sheets, or nappes, in areas of thrusttectonics or to the effects of tectonics on lithostratigraphy. One example...
crust of the continental margin (thrusttectonics). This takes the form of folding of the ductile deeper crust and thrust faulting in the upper brittle crust...
within thrust sheets and kinematics of thrusttectonics as derived from palaeomagnetic data: an example from the Southern Pyrenees, 265–275. Thrust Tectonics...
The Moine Thrust Belt or Moine Thrust Zone is a linear tectonic feature in the Scottish Highlands which runs from Loch Eriboll on the north coast 190...
partitioned into zones of thrusttectonics (accommodating that part of the motion perpendicular to the boundary) and strike-slip tectonics (accommodating the...
active thrusttectonics, linking eastwards to the Apsheron sill. To the south, the Lesser Caucasus mountains are also a result of active thrusttectonics. The...
in the Earth's crust. Ground fissures can form naturally, such as from tectonic faulting and earthquakes, or as a consequence of human activity, such as...
certain parts of an area's history, such as movement, deformation, or tectonic activity. When measuring or describing the attitude of an inclined feature...
plate boundaries, where one tectonic plate is forced underneath another. The earthquakes are caused by slip along the thrust fault that forms the contact...
Tectonic uplift is the geologic uplift of Earth's surface that is attributed to plate tectonics. While isostatic response is important, an increase in...
earthquakes in Italy Monaco, C.; Mazzoli S.; Tortorici L. (1996). "Active thrusttectonics in western Sicily (southern Italy): the 1968 Belice earthquake sequence"...
The Main Central Thrust is a major geological fault where the Indian Plate has pushed under the Eurasian Plate along the Himalaya. The fault slopes down...
N–S to NNW–SSE direction. The convergence is related to uplift and thrusttectonics along the Rif mountains. The shock came just days after another earthquake...
; Wheeler, Paul J. (August 1999). "Late Cenozoic tectonics of the Kepingtage Thrust Zone". Tectonics. 18 (4): 639–654. Bibcode:1999Tecto..18..639A. doi:10...
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