On the issue of faults, strike-slips and other displacements of veins and layers

Abstract

Recently there has been some revival in the literature on faults and other displacements of layers and veins, and this revival concerns even the purely geometric aspect of the issue, which seemed to be completely exhausted. We propose a different derivation of intersections and, from them, faults, refaults, and other displacements, whereby the latter are arranged in a series according to the decreasing or increasing number of doublings of the stratum they contain, from which, as a consequence, follows the determination of the shortest and most convenient paths for exploring the displaced part of the stratum. In the process, we will have to address the modern, extremely imperfect in the geometrical sense, terminology and classification of faults and other displacements.

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