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Detailed aeromagnetic data, extending from the eastern terminus of the Wichita structural system westward across southern Oklahoma and the Amarillo uplift to the Texas-New Mexico line, reveal a series of long linear faults that evidently formed by regional strike-slip movement in the Proterozoic era. The faulting may represent offset within the existing North American craton, but could also represent the suturing of another continental segment to the craton. Later Paleozoic southwest-northeast compression of these pre-existing wrench faults produced thrusting that is obvious in present-day surface and subsurface geology.
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Hawley, B.W., Gay, S.P. (1998). Late Precambrian Strike-Slip Fault System of the Wichita-Amarillo Mountains as Delineated by Detailed Aeromagnetic Data. In: Hogan, J.P., Gilbert, M.C. (eds) Basement Tectonics 12. Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5098-9_27
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