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Studies of sustained activity in the Koyna — Warna Seismic Zone have yielded several models of faults in the basement of the Deccan Traps inferred from geophysical and seismic signatures. There is however, a dearth of unambiguous surface manifestations of such faults, apart from the surface ruptures from the epicentral zone of the December, 1967 earthquake. We report for the first time, an exposed NW-SE trending reverse fault in the Deccan Trap basalts from this region.
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Bhave, N., Imran Siddique, M., Desai, J. et al. Faulting in Deccan Traps in the vicinity of Koyna-Warna Seismic Zone. J Geol Soc India 90, 748–751 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-017-0786-5
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