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Push-Up Block

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Antidilational fault jog; Compressional bridge; Compressional stepover; Contractional duplex; Pop-ups; Pressure ridge; Push-up swell; Restraining bend; Restraining stepover; Rhomb horst; Structural knot; Transpressional uplift

Definition

Push-up blocks are topographic uplifts that localize on the geometric irregularities along strike-slip faults where fault segments form a compressive stepover or bend.

Introduction

Push-up blocks are an integral part of intraplate and interplate strike-slip fault zones (e.g., Sylvester and Smith, 1976; Christie-Blick and Biddle, 1985; Sylvester, 1988) and are very important structures for hydrocarbon accumulations. They represent structural traps as en échelon anticlines in places combined with stratigraphic traps (Harding, 1974, 1990; McClay and Bonora, 2001). Many large strike-slip fault zones commonly have large-scale push-up blocks associated with overstepping and bending both in marine and terrestrial environments (e.g., Angelier et al., 2004...

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  1. Alper Gürbüz

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  1. Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

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  2. Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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  3. Leibiniz Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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  4. Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and Lit c/o Helmholtz-Center for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany

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Gürbüz, A. (2014). Push-Up Block. In: Harff, J., Meschede, M., Petersen, S., Thiede, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6644-0_117-1

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