Fold geometry and folding–a review

ST Nabavi, H Fossen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Our understanding of folds and folding builds on detailed geometrical analysis. Proper
description of folds and their relation to other structures such as fractures, cleavage and …

Fault-related folding: A review of kinematic models and their application

C Brandes, DC Tanner - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Folding that is directly related to fault activity is an important deformation feature that occurs
all over the world in mountain belts, accretionary wedges, fold-and-thrust belts, and intra …

Influence of Syntectonic sedimentation and Décollement rheology on the geometry and evolution of Orogenic wedges: Analog modeling of the Kuqa fold‐and‐Thrust …

O Pla, E Roca, H **e, E Izquierdo‐Llavall, JA Muñoz… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Contractional deformation in the outer parts of fold‐and‐thrust belts is in part controlled by
the presence of syntectonic sediments and multiple décollements (eg, the Apennines, the …

Thrust and fold tectonics and the role of evaporites in deformation in the Western Kuqa Foreland of Tarim Basin, Northwest China

S Chen, L Tang, Z **, C Jia, X Pi - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2004 - Elsevier
The Kuqa foreland between the Tarim basin and the Tianshan Mountains is rich in oil and
gas. Based on field work and seismic profiles, the structural styles and their formation …

Influence of multiple detachments on structural vergence and evolution of the thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belt in the eastern Sichuan Basin: Insights from numerical …

W Xu, H Yin, S Zhao, C Zhang, B Li, D Jia, C Li… - Journal of Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
The thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belt with multiple detachments in the eastern Sichuan Basin
is characterized by a series of fault-detachment folds with a backward preferred structural …

Slab horizontal subduction and slab tearing beneath East Asia

P Ma, S Liu, M Gurnis, B Zhang - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The present‐day architecture of subducted slabs in the mantle as inferred from seismic
tomography is a record of plate tectonics through geological time. The unusually large slab …

Rift migration and lateral propagation: evolution of normal faults and sediment-routing systems of the western Corinth rift (Greece)

M Ford, R Hemelsdaël, M Mancini… - … Society, London, Special …, 2017 - lyellcollection.org
The active Corinth rift records hanging-wall migration of faulting and slip-rate acceleration.
The rift initiated at approximately 5–4 Ma, and older parts are well exposed in the northern …

Salt structures and hydrocarbon accumulations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China

Y Yu, L Tang, W Yang, T Huang, N Qiu… - AAPG …, 2014 - archives.datapages.com
ABSTRACT The Tarim Basin is one of the most important hydrocabon-bearing evaporite
basins in China. Four salt-bearing sequences, the Middle and Lower Cambrian, the …

Understanding the kinematics of salt-bearing passive margins: A critical test of competing hypotheses for the origin of the Albian Gap, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil

CAL Jackson, MPA Jackson, MR Hudec - Bulletin, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Thin-skinned gravitational gliding and spreading drive deformation on salt-bearing passive
margins. Such margins typically have an updip extensional domain kinematically linked to a …

Effect of mechanical stratigraphy on the structure and kinematics of salt-bearing fold-and-thrust belts: Insights from scaled analogue experiments with optical strain …

G Feng, S Chen, J Adam, Y Yamada, X Wang - Journal of Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract 2D contractional scaled analogue experiments with composite materials including
silica-sand and mica-flakes for overburden and silicone for salt analogue are used to …