Many steeply dipping normal faults are actually listric faults. As the lithosphere is stretched during continental extension, the deeper crust thins by plastic deformation, while the upper crust is broken up and pulled apart by listric faults which 'bott
Further development have been proposed in particular by Wernicke. The important difference is in that stretching is accommodated by a single low-angle detachments system which produces a strong asymmetry. Basins associated with the thermal subsidence pha
Extension of stable continental lithosphere: Conceptual models
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