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| Frictional slip- • Slip along pre-existing joints or fault surfaces. This is much easier than creating new joints or faults. Probably most surface deformation occurs through this mechanism. Bass canyon: individual submarine canyons are the surface expression of faults that likely have been reactivated many times |
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