Horse (geology)
Ahorse,ingeology,is any block ofrockcompletely separated from the surrounding rock either bymineral veinsorfault planes.Inmining,a horse is a block ofcountry rockentirely encased within a minerallode.[1]Instructural geologythe term was first used to describe the thrust-bounded imbricates found within athrust duplex.[2]In later literature it has become a general term for any block entirely bounded by faults, whether the overall deformation type iscontractional,extensionalorstrike-slipin nature.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^Butler, F.H. 1911. The brecciation of mineral veins.
- ^Dennis, J.G. 1967. International tectonic dictionary. AAPG Memoir 7, 196pp.
- ^Root, K.G. 1990. Extensional duplex in the Purcell Mountains of southeastern British Columbia. Geology, 18, 419-421
- ^Laney, Stephen E; Gates, Alexander E (1996), "Three-dimensional shuffling of horses in a strike-slip duplex: an example from the Lambertville sill, New Jersey",Tectonophysics,258(1–4): 53–70,Bibcode:1996Tectp.258...53L,doi:10.1016/0040-1951(95)00173-5
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