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Tar-pavement structures have been observed to geometrically resemble rift-transform fault systems. These consist of a series of spaced, dilatant fractures or rifts connected up by linear arrays of en echelon cracks or ‘transform fault’ lines. The geometrical relationships in these tar pavement structures resemble tectonic rift-rift offsets and transform faults described in nature and experiment These structural models are applied to aspects of the tectonic evolution of the East African rift and Rhine graben, as well as the southern portion of the Australian New England Orogen.
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Katz, M.B. (1992). Tar Pavement Rift - Transform Tectonic Model and some Examples in Nature. In: Rickard, M.J., Harrington, H.J., Williams, P.R. (eds) Basement Tectonics 9. Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2654-0_14
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