As we discussed in lecture, slip over non-planar faults requires folding of the overlying rocks. In extensional environments, this folding occurs as distributed shear, oriented parallel to the Coulomb failure orientation (or, ~65o dip relative to the earth’s surface); this kinematic modeling approach (after Xiao and Suppe, 1992) provides a predictive way of constructing a complete
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