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A detachment fault is a gently dipping normal fault associated with large-scale extensional tectonics. Detachment faults often have very large displacements and juxtapose unmetamorphosed hanging walls against medium to high-grade metamorphic footwalls that are called metamorphic core complexes. They are thought to have formed as either initially low-angle structures or by the rotation of initially high-angle normal faults modified also by the isostatic effects of tectonic denudation. They may also be called denudation faults.
Examples of detachment faulting include:The Snake Range detachment system of the Basin and Range Province of western North America which was active during the Miocene
The Nordfjord-Sogn detachment of western Norway active during the Devonian Period
The Whipple detachment in southeastern California
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Microseismicity and lithosphere thickness at a nearly-amagmatic oceanic detachment fault system - Nature
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Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes - Science | AAAS
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Fluid Flow, Mineralization and Deformation in an Oceanic Detachment Fault: Microtextural, Geochemical and Isotopic Evidence From Pyrite at 13°30′N on the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge - Martin - 2024 - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems - AGU Publications
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On the Origin of Low-Angle Detachment Faults - Eos - Science News by AGU
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Geologists Find Largest Exposed Fault on Earth - Sci.News
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Origin of Serpentinization Patterns Beneath the S-Reflector Detachment Fault in the Galicia Margin, Offshore Spain - AGU Publications
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Discovery of biggest exposed fault on Earth solves mystery of how abyss formed - New Atlas
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How transform fault shear influences where detachment faults form near mid-ocean ridges - Nature
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Tectonic structure, evolution, and the nature of oceanic core complexes and their detachment fault zones (13°20′N and 13°30′N, Mid Atlantic Ridge) - AGU Publications
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South Virgin–White Hills detachment fault system of SE Nevada and NW Arizona: Applying apatite fission track thermochronology to constrain the tectonic evolution of a major continental detachment fault - AGU Publications
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Dynamics of intraoceanic subduction initiation: 1. Oceanic detachment fault inversion and the formation of supra-subduction zone ophiolites - AGU Publications
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Detachment-Fault Structure Beneath the TAG Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Revealed From Dense Wide-Angle Seismic Data - AGU Publications
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Spatiotemporal evolution of brittle normal faulting and fluid infiltration in detachment fault systems: A case study from the Menderes Massif, western Turkey - AGU Publications
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Biggest Exposed Fault on Earth Discovered - The Science Explorer
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