A bend or step in a strike-slip fault is a restraining bend when the motion of the blocks pushes them together across it, and a releasing bend when it pulls them apart. For a dextral fault a step to the right is releasing and a step to the left restraining; for a sinistral fault the reverse.
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什么是 Restraining bend, releasing bend?
又称: restraining bend · releasing bend