Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5786230 | Journal of Structural Geology | 2017 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
The imaginary fault refers to the counterpart of a certain given fault that has a similar expression about the Wallace-Bott hypothesis. It is included to further reduce the feasible fields for the principal stress directions using the right dihedra method. The given fault and its imaginary fault have a similar dip-slip sense under the extensional or compressional regime but, as proved in this paper, a different dip-slip sense under the strike-slip regime. Their relation in dip-slip sense does no change with the rotation of the coordinate system, thus making possible the general use in the reduction of the imaginary faults under any tectonic regime. A procedure for this use is proposed and applied to a real example to demonstrate the feasibility of this method.
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Authors
Yehua Shan, Xinquan Liang,