Abstract
A distinctive features of the Ahtyirskiy fault (Krasnodar, Russia) are its long length and the unusual geological structure. The fault demarcates the boundary between highlands and flat landform. To study the fault displacement we have applied two methods. The first structural–geo-morphological method reconstructs orientation of the compression/expansion axis in a horizontal plane and thus determines the direction of a horizontal displacement along the fault. In this study the method has been modified by analyzing of individual segments of the Ahtyirskiy fault. Another method is the microseismic sounding that determines a distribution of surface wave characteristics in a vertical plane. We conclude that the displacement along the fault has average direction, which we call the upthrust right-shift. However there are segments that are deformed in a special manner and displacements along them can not be explained via theoretical models. Mainly the fault plane falls to the south direction while its individual parts fall to the north.
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We thank Yuri Rebetskiy, Anastasia Mikhaylova and other colleagues of the Gzovsky’s laboratory of Shmidt’s Institute of Physics of the Earth for fruitful discussion of results that are presented in this chapter.
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Smaglichenko, A.V., Sim, L.A., Gorbatikov, A.V. (2014). A Complexity of the Displacement Along Segments of the Akhtyirskiy Fault. In: Sanayei, A., Zelinka, I., Rössler, O. (eds) ISCS 2013: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45438-7_39
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