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(a) Field photo of the Charyn Canyon Thrust Fault. Palaeozoic rocks overthrust Cenozoic sedimentary rocks along the steeply southward dipping fault. Notice steep secondary fault of opposed vergence. Image is c. 2 km wide along the Canyon. (b) Field image of the Kuturgai Thrust fault exposed in the Charyn gorge. Secondary faults in Palaeozoic volcanic rocks of the hanging wall appear to form a positive flower structure. Cenozoic sedimentary rocks in the footwall are affected by a low-angle, dip-slip thrust fault.
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The northern front of the Tien Shan mountains in Kazakhstan comprises an
array of thrust-related basement uplifts of varying size and
orientation. Many of these uplifts are asymmetric anticlines with long,
gently dipping backlimbs, rounded hinges and more steeply dipping, short
frontlimbs, suggesting they may overlie listric thrust faults. Where
ex...
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