Fault system

Critics have long complained about the ineffectiveness of medical liability law both as a means of reducing the risks of injuries and as a system of compensation for injuries. So far, none of these critiques has led policy makers to jettison our fault-based medical liability system and to replace it with some type of no-fault system as proposed by some scholars. Thus some form of medical liability is going to be a feature of the social and regulatory... [Pg.188]

Structurally, the Shilbottle Coalfield is relatively simple. The strata strike approximately 45°N and dip about 10° to the SE. Antithetic extensional faults disturb seam continuity locally (Fig. 6), and a single major fault system striking approximately 85°N (cropping out in the vicinity of Whittle Fig. 6) down-throws the coal to the north by some 200 m. [Pg.196]

The volcanoes of the Roman Province developed in a region characterised by Late Miocene-Quaternary extensional tectonics related to the eastward migration of Apennine mountain range and to the contemporaneous opening of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The volcanic zone is characterised by a system of Upper Miocene to Pleistocene NW-SE basins, developed along normal faults and intersected by strike-slip NE-SW faults (Bartolini et al. 1982). Both fault systems represent zones of crustal weakness along which Roman potassic magmas were intruded. [Pg.71]

The volcanic centers of the Campania Province developed inside Quaternary extensional basins along the Tyrrhenian Sea border at the intersection between NE-SW and NW-SE fault systems. The Pontine Islands form a row of volcanoes with a W-E trend, offshore the Campania Province, and along the so-called 41st Parallel Tectonic Line (Serri 1990 Bruno et al. 2000). Vulture is located at the eastern border of the Apennine compression front, in an extensional tectonic setting affecting the border of the Apulia foreland. [Pg.131]

The island of Salina (27 km2) lies at the intersection between the Alicudi-Filicudi alignment and the Tindari-Letojanni-Malta fault system. It represents the emergent part of a structure that rises 1500 meters above the sea floor and 962 m above sea level. The island is characterised by the well-preserved cones of Monte Felci and Monte Porri, which have been constructed upon the eroded volcanoes of Rivi, Capo and Corvo. The age of... [Pg.183]

The Island of Pantelleria is located in the NW-SE trending rift zone affecting the Pelagian block (Pantelleria rift Fig. 8.1). The volcano rises about 1000 m above the sea floor and reaches an altitude of 836 m above sea level. The structural setting is dominated by NW-SE and N-S trending fractures. A NE-SW tensile fault system divides the island into two sectors. The northwestern sector contains most of the exposed basaltic rocks, whereas the southeastern sector is constructed entirely by silicic peralka-line rocks (Fig. 8.10). [Pg.230]

Bruno PP, Di Fiore V, Ventura G (2000) Seismic study of the 41st Parallel fault system offshore the Campanian-Latial continental margin, Italy. Tectonophys-ics 324 37-55... [Pg.328]

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Miller E. L., Dumitru T. A., Brown R. W., and Gans P. B. (1999) Rapid Miocene slip on the Snake range-Deep Creek range fault system, east-central Nevada. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. Ill, 886-905. [Pg.1552]

Murphy M. A., Yin A., Kapp P., Harrison T. M., Manning C. E., Ryerson F. J., Ding L., and Guo J. H. (2002) structural evolution of the Gurla Mandhata detachment system, southwest Tibet implications for the eastward extent of the Karakoram fault system. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 114(4), 428-447. [Pg.1552]

Wells M. L., Snee L. W., and Blythe A. E. (2000) Dating of major normal fault systems using thermochronology an example from the Raft river detachment, basin and range, western United States. J. Geophys. Res. 105, 16303-16327. [Pg.1554]

Matteini M., Mazzuoli R., Omarini R., Cas R., and Maas R. (2002) The geochemical variations of the upper cenozoic volcanism along the Calama-Olacapato-El Toro transversal fault system in central Andes ( 24°S) petrogenetic and geodynamic implications. Tectonophysics 345, 211-227. [Pg.1911]

RoeskeS., Mattinson J., and Armstrong R. (1989) Isotopic ages of glaucophane schists on the Kodiak Islands, southern Alaska, and their implications for the Mesozoic tectonic history of the Border Ranges fault system. Geol. Soc. Ami. Bull. 101, 1021-1037. [Pg.1913]

Kharaka Y. K., Thordsen J. J., Evans W. C., and Kennedy B. M. (1999b) Geochemistry and hydromechanical interactions of fluids associated with the San Andreas fault system, Cahfomia. In Faults and Subsurface Fluid Flow in the Shallow Crust, AGU Geophys. Monograph Series 113 (eds. W. C. Haneberg, L. B. Goodwin, P. S. Mozley, and J. C. Moore), pp. 129—148. [Pg.2789]

Pull-apart basins in en echelon fault systems... [Pg.22]

Peacock, D.C.P. and Sanderson, D.J. 1994. Geometry and development of relay ramps in normal fault systems. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull., 78 147-165. [Pg.37]

Walsh, J.J. and Watterson, J. 1991. Geometric and kinematic coherence and scale effects in normal fault systems. In A.M. Roberts, G. Yielding and B. Freeman (Editors), The Geometry of Normal Faults. Geol. Soc. Special Publication 56, pp, 193-203. [Pg.38]

Griifiths, P.S. 1980. Box-fault systems and ramps atypical associations of structures from the eastern shoulder of the Kenya Rift. Geol. Mag., 117 579-586. [Pg.72]

Childs, C., Watterson, J. and Walsh, J.J. 1995. Fault overlap zones within developing normal fault systems. J. Geol. Soc. London, 152 535-549. [Pg.163]

The cyclic Lower Cretaceous shelf carbonates of the Edwards Group dip into the Gulf of Mexico Coast geosyncline , and can be considered, to a first approximation, as part of a complex aquifer contained by Paleozoic basement beneath, and by relatively impermeable Upper Cretaceous clay and chalk above. The hydrodynamic character of this carbonate system is strongly controlled by major fault systems. Major fault systems serve as pathways for vertical movement of basinal brines into the Lower Cretaceous section. Formation water movement in this sytem has strong upfault and updip components. [Pg.51]

The patterns of diagenetic evolution recognized in this study allow discussion of the conditions for optimum porosity preservation and/or enhancement in the Serraria reservoirs. The best reservoirs of the unit occur in the Caioba area of the distal domain, where porosity was enhanced by dissolution of detrital feldspars and dolomite cement during telogenetic influx of meteoric waters. Similar conditions are expected for other structural blocks of the basin affected by post-rift uplift and erosion, or blocks bounded by major fault systems in which the Serraria Formation was relatively close to the... [Pg.136]

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