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oa A New Technique for 3D Restoration of Flexural Slip Folds
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, EAGE Conference on Geology and Petroleum Geology of the Mediterranean and Circum-Mediterranean Basins, Oct 2000, cp-109-00018
- ISBN: 978-90-73781-14-6
Abstract
A new structural restoration and forward modelling flexural slip technique for three-dimensional (3D) digital models has been developed. The flexural slip method preserves volume in 3D, line length (of the template surface and layers parallel to this surface) in a given unfolding direction and orthogonal bed thickness. The model surfaces need not be parallel to each other. These constraints allow 3D fault-propagation, fault-bend and detachment folds to be restored or forward modelled.