Note on the compressional angle between intersecting transcurrent clockwise and anti-clockwise faults
- 1 August 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
- Vol. 1 (3), 533-540
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1958.10422786
Abstract
It is shown that the compressional angle between intersecting major transcurrent clockwise and anti-clockwise faults is acute in tensional, and obtuse in compressional regions.Keywords
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