Title: Computerized downplunge projection and the analysis of low-angle thrust-faults in the rocky Mountain Foothills of Alberta, Canada
Abstract: Low-angle thrust-faults in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Foothills can be effectively detected and analyzed with the aid of structural cross-sections prepared by downplunge projection. Most of the disadvantages of this method can be overcome through computerization. In the central and western parts of the Mountain Park coalfield the method helped detect and determine the displacement, angular relation to bedding and relative age of two major, previously unrecognized, low-angle thrust-faults. These faults, of which the lower is the younger, cut up section to the northeast at angles averaging about 5° and have a combined displacement of about 7.6 km.
Publication Year: 1980
Publication Date: 1980-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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