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Cenozoic normal fault mosaics bounded beneath by a basal fault in the Basin and Range Province (BRP) have traditionally been described either in terms of large-scale surficial gravity sliding or by some form of in situ lower plate accommodation. I suggest here that these areas may be an extensional analogue to thin-skinned compressional orogens, a process which may even dominate active BRP tectonics.
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Wernicke, B. Low-angle normal faults in the Basin and Range Province: nappe tectonics in an extending orogen. Nature 291, 645–648 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/291645a0
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