Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2025
The chapter discusses various data and methods involved in determination of timing of strike-slip faulting events and continental breakup at future transform margins, and case studies demonstrating their use. Data include either syn-tectonic strata, or rock sections lacking them. Methods include paleontological methods, systematic fluid inclusion analysis, analysis of sea-floor spreading-related magnetic-stripe anomalies, low-temperature thermochronometry methods, K–Ar and 40Ar–39Ar geochronology methods on various minerals, U–Pb zircon and calcite dating, Sm–Nd and Lu–Hf dating methods on garnet, and 14C, 10Be, 26Al cosmogenic isotope dating.
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