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What will be an ideal response?
Ans: They could extend into the plastic field where they would become plastic shear zones. There is evidence that some strike-slip structures extend through the entire crust and into the lithosphere. In other cases strike-slip faults may be connected with a low-angle detachment, for instance in subduction zone settings (see Figure 18.7).
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