Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Detachment faulting is associated with large-scale extensional tectonics. Detachment faults often have very large displacements (tens of km) and juxtapose unmetamorphosed hanging walls against medium to high-grade metamorphic footwalls that are called metamorphic core complexes. They are thought to have formed as either initially low-angle structures or by the rotation of initially high-angle normal faults modified also by the isostatic effects of tectonic denudation.Examples of detachment faulting include:The Snake Range detachment system of the Basin and Range Province of western North America which was active during the MioceneThe Nordfjord-Sogn Detachment of western Norway active during the Devonian Period The Whipple detachment in southeastern California Detachment faults have been found on the sea floor close to divergent plate boundaries characterised by a limited supply of upwelling magma. These detachment faults are associated with the development of oceanic core complex structures."@en }
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- Detachment_fault abstract "Detachment faulting is associated with large-scale extensional tectonics. Detachment faults often have very large displacements (tens of km) and juxtapose unmetamorphosed hanging walls against medium to high-grade metamorphic footwalls that are called metamorphic core complexes. They are thought to have formed as either initially low-angle structures or by the rotation of initially high-angle normal faults modified also by the isostatic effects of tectonic denudation.Examples of detachment faulting include:The Snake Range detachment system of the Basin and Range Province of western North America which was active during the MioceneThe Nordfjord-Sogn Detachment of western Norway active during the Devonian Period The Whipple detachment in southeastern California Detachment faults have been found on the sea floor close to divergent plate boundaries characterised by a limited supply of upwelling magma. These detachment faults are associated with the development of oceanic core complex structures.".