Transtension is the state in which a rock mass or area of the Earth's crust experiences both extensive and transtensive shear. As such, transtensional regions are characterised by both extensional structures (normal faults, grabens) and wrench structures (strike-slip faults). In general, many tectonic regimes that were previously defined as simple strike-slip shear zones are actually transtensional. It is unlikely that a deforming body will experience 'pure' extension or 'pure' strike-slip.
Transtensional shear zones are characterized by the co-existence of different structures, related to both strike-slip shear and extension. End member structures include pure strike-slip faults and purely extensional ("normal") dip-slip faults. Faults which have components of both (termed 'oblique' slip faults) are abundant.
Transtension is the state in which a rock mass or area of the Earth's crust experiences both extensive and transtensive shear. As such, transtensional...
George (2021). "The Santorini-Amorgos Shear Zone: Evidence for Dextral Transtension in the South Aegean Back-Arc Region, Greece". Geosciences. 11 (5). Basel...
tectonics Structural geology Transtension Dewey, J. F.; Holdsworth, R. E.; Strachan, R. A. (1998-01-01). "Transpression and transtension zones". Geological Society...
LUYENDYK, BRUCE P. (1991-11-01). "A model for Neogene crustal rotations, transtension, and transpression in southern California". GSA Bulletin. 103 (11): 1528...
tectonic scale involving oblique convergent margins and transpression / transtension tectonic regimes. Convergent margins where the angle of subduction is...
leading to uplift on both sides of the Beqaa valley. There is local transtension in the northernmost part of the fault system, forming the Ghab pull-apart...
strike-slip, associated with intermittent dextral transpression and transtension. Between the Clogher Valley Fault and the Southern Upland Fault, the...
transpression and transtension phases. High rates of magma generation coincided with a c. 418–404 Ma Early Devonian sinistral transtension phase. This decreased...
tension. When the curve in the fault plane moves apart, a region of transtension occurs and sometimes is large enough and long-lived enough to create...
80-10 Luyendyk, B. P. (1991). "A model for Neogene crustal rotations, transtension, and transpression in southern California". Geological Society of America...
g. a left-stepping bend on a sinistral fault, a zone of extension or transtension is generated. Such bends are known as releasing bends or extensional...
intrusion since the early Cretaceous, and no rifting or major extension or transtension since the Paleogene." Finally there is the common question of what is...
in the Miocene, before deposition of the Topanga, high heat flow and transtension caused the extension of the basin. As the crust thinned, the basin began...
from approximately 65–58 Ma transpression to approximately 57–45 Ma transtension. The fault zone is truncated to the SE by the 48 Ma Cooper Mountain batholith...
Range Province. Bimodal volcanism has also been described from areas of transtension, the early phases of back-arc basin formation and in the products of...
been taking place, as well as varying amounts of both transpression and transtension occurring before then. To the northwest of the triple junction the Pacific...
years is possibly due to repetitive upper mantle upwelling and adjacent transtension throughout the Queen Charlotte Fault, accommodated partly by numerous...
doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.05. S2CID 129574741. Dewey, J. F. (2002). "Transtension in Arcs and Orogens". International Geology Review. 44 (5): 402–438....
hypothesis, concerning aliens in space, related to the Fermi paradox Transtension This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Transcension...
The Malibu Coast—Santa Monica—Hollywood fault system is the result of transtension and transpression associated with rotation of the Transverse Ranges in...
MacInnes, and Carlos G. Roselli, 2005, Field Trip B7 Transpression and transtension along a continental transform fault: Minas Fault Zone, Nova Scotia. Geological...
faults that form the various basins resulted from a subsequent change to transtension. Early Eocene igneous units in the area appear to be part of a 49- to...
Okay, Aral; Tüysüz, Okan; Kaya, Şinasi (2004). "From transpression to transtension: Changes in morphology and structure around a bend on the North Anatolian...
Structural and Geomorphic Transition From Transpression to Strike-Slip to Transtension Related to Active Microplate Rotation, Papua New Guinea". Frontiers in...
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