File:Transform Fault Restraining and Releasing Bends.jpg

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English: (a) shows transpression caused by the restraining bend, this creates uplift and exhumation of the rock locally. (b) shows the opposite - transtension at the releasing bend, where extension causes the formation of a pull-apart basin and subsidence of the ground.
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Two scenarios of a strike slip fault where transpression is occurring in (a) and transtension is occuring in (b)

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