HORIZONTAL TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS OF THE AMZARA-MUKHURI MONOCLINE ZONE
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https://doi.org/10.52340/pajig.2026.137.10Keywords:
indentation, orocline, hemianticlineAbstract
The formation of horizontal flexures – hemianticlines and hemisynclines with an anti-Caucasian strike in the Amzara-Mukhuri monoclinal belt can be explained by a change in the direction of horizontal compression vectors from north to northwest.
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