• Name DILAWAR SAJJAD

• Roll no 03
• Topic Reverse Fault
Reverse fault
Thrust Faults:
In the thrust faults the hanging wall has moved up relative
to the footwall (dip angle 30º or less)
Reverse Faults:
Are similar to the thrust faults regarding the sense of
motion but the dip angle of the fault plane is 45º or more

Thrust faults usually formed in areas of compressional regime.

Compressional tectonics
 Structure associated with Thrust fault
• Folds may form in association with thrust faults.
• A wide variety of fold styles are recognized but the main types are:
a) Fault-bend folds: formed where the dip of the fault changes;
b) Detachment folds: formed where the slip changes, and
distortion is accommodated in the hanging wall;
 Structure associated with thrust fault
• Fault-bend folds
• Fault-propagation folds
• Thrust duplex
Fault-bend folds

• Fault-bend folding is a
common folding process in
the upper crust of the Earth
that occurs when blocks of
rock are displaced over non-
planar fault segments 
• Diagram of the evolution of a fault-
bend fold or 'ramp anticline' above a
thrust ramp, the ramp
links decollements at the top of the
green and yellow layers
Fault-propagation folds
• Fault-propagation folds form at the tip of a thrust fault
where propagation along the decollement has ceased
but displacement on the thrust behind the fault tip is
continuing. The continuing displacement is
accommodated by formation of an asymmetric
anticline-syncline fold pair.
• As displacement continues the thrust tip starts to
propagate along the axis of the syncline. Such structures
are also known as tip-line folds.
• Diagram shows of the evolution of a fault propagation fold
Thrust Duplex
• Duplexes occur where there are two
decollement levels close to each other
within a sedimentary sequence, such as
the top and base of a relatively
strong sandstone layer bounded by two
relatively weak mudstone layers.
• Development of thrust duplex by
progressive failure of ramp footwall

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 • Forearc basins are marine depositional basins on the trench side of arcs, and
Fore Arc Basin they vary in size and abundance with the evolutionary stage of an arc.
Back Arc Basin
• A back-arc basin is a type of
geologic basin, found at
some convergent plate
boundaries. Presently all back-
arc basins are submarine
features associated with island
arcs and subduction zones
 Retro arc Basin
• retro-arc basin A type of back-
arc basin which is floored
by continental crust. The
main sediments are fluvial,
deltaic, or marine, derived from
the uplifted area behind the arc.