What would a profile look like across a restraining bend? Releasing bend?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: A profile across restraining and releasing bends may show that faults connect at depth to form something similar to a positive and negative flower structure, which generally means an extensional graben structure and a contractional structure, such as is shown in Figure Q18.4.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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