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Figure 16. Development of deep faults in the continental crust under the conditions of subhorizontal extension in the case of tensile forces acting primarily in one direction. Compiled by E. I. Shishkin and T. Yu. Shishkina [Aisberg et al., 1991]. (1) Crustal fault, (2) ground surface subsidence area filled with loose sediments; (3) boundary of the modified position of the pre-rift ground surface; (4) boundaries of the areas with different types of deformation; (5) conventional depth limit of the region of plastic deformation; (6) numbers of fault generations; (7) extension directions; (I) region of brittle deformation; (II) region of mixed-type deformation; (III) region of plastic deformation: z', z'', and z''' denote successive changes of the z -axis position in the zx plane.


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