On extensional faults, crust extends horizontally. Landmasses slip past each other along strike-slip faults. On thrust faults, landmasses move over and under the other.

The rupture occurred along an extensional or “pull-apart” fault in the middle of the plate. Such large extensional faulting near a subduction zone is rare, and this is the third largest such event ...

Extensional faults are in fact common around subduction zones--but only in oceanic plates, not the overriding continental ones, where this one was found. How did it get there?

Normal fault systems bounding extensional basins are typically adjoined by a series of subbasins separated by intrabasin highs. The strata within these basins form syndepositional anticlines and ...

“While Turkey is well known for its earthquake-prone strike-slip faults, this study confirms for the first time that the Tuz Gölü Fault is an extensional fault, meaning the land on either side ...

Extensional structures provide some of the world's largest known oil reservoirs and remain one of the major frontier plays of the immediate future, ... bed-length changes and fault prediction; ...