Detection of fault segments based on P–T dihedra analysis along the North Tabriz fault, NW Iran

Subject Areas : Mineralogy

Pouya Sadeghi-Farshbaf ¹ , Mohammad Mahdi Khatib ² , Hamid Nazari ³

1 - Department of Geology, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran
2 - Department of Geology, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran
3 - Research Institute for Earth Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-05-02 Accepted : 2020-05-17 Published : 2020-10-01

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