Analysis of a strike-slip fault network using high resolution multibeam bathymetry, offshore NW Devon U.K.

Imaging of the sea floor offshore from Hartland Point (north Devon, U.K.), using high resolution multibeam bathymetry, reveals a strike-slip fault network. This consists of NE-trending left-lateral faults and NW-trending right-lateral faults that cut folded and steeply dipping strata (~ 60°). Faults...

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Main Authors: Nixon, Casey (Author), Sanderson, David J. (Author), Bull, Jonathan M. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2012-05-14.
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