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Iran Earthquake - Standard Blind Thrust

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Author: Harold Asmis
Date: 2017-11-13 12:53:00
Blog: Ontario-geofish
URL: http://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2017/11/iran-earthquake-standard-blind-thrust.html

Summary:

In this neck of the woods, mountains are there for a reason.  It is a sign of compression.  It gets a lot worse up in the 'stan' countries.  So you have mountains and you have valleys.  The mountains are the footwalls of thrust faults, and the valleys are the chewed-up hanging walls.  It's the same geometry around Toronto. This shows the pure thrust.  In the hanging wall (the

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