The second profile include both normal faulting and reverse faulting, could there exist strike slip faulting? Maybe three stress fields can exist in the same profile at the same time.
Well - there's no indication of strike-slip - the fault plane striations run more or less down-dip (pitch/rake c 90 degrees). I interpret the reverse sense offset on that small fault in the W side of the cove as part of a conjugate with max compressive stress parallel to the fault dip direction... so actually part of the same normal faulting - with the corollary that the fault plane could not support significant shear stresses (so v weak at the time) ... Not much macroscopic evidence for inversion....
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Must take a trip to see this.
It's great - and easy to get around....
The second profile include both normal faulting and reverse faulting, could there exist strike slip faulting? Maybe three stress fields can exist in the same profile at the same time.
Well - there's no indication of strike-slip - the fault plane striations run more or less down-dip (pitch/rake c 90 degrees). I interpret the reverse sense offset on that small fault in the W side of the cove as part of a conjugate with max compressive stress parallel to the fault dip direction... so actually part of the same normal faulting - with the corollary that the fault plane could not support significant shear stresses (so v weak at the time) ... Not much macroscopic evidence for inversion....