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==What is a structural style?==

==What is a structural style?==

Structural styles or structural families are associations of structures that often occur together due to a common origin. For example, major foreland thrust belts usually contain a mixture of listric reverse or decollement thrust faults, large asymmetric hangingwall folds, and late listric normal faults. These features are arranged to form an overall arcuate deformed belt. There is little or no involvement of mechanical basement in the deformation. Individual structures generally have good strike continuity and poor depth or dip continuity. Hence, in any newly discovered thrust belt, these same associations (thrust belt structural style) would be anticipated, modified somewhat by local geology. The concept of structural styles and their classification are given in Harding and Lowell<ref name=Harding_Lowell_1979>Harding, T. P., and J. D. Lowell, 1979, Structural styles, their plate-tectonic habitats and hydrocarbon traps in petroleum provinces: AAPG Bulletin, v. 63, p. 1016-1058.</ref> and Lowell.<ref name=ch20r215>Lowell, J., D., 1985, Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration: Tulsa, OGCI, 460 p.</ref>

Structural styles or structural families are associations of structures that often occur together due to a common origin. For example, major [[foreland thrust belt]]s usually contain a mixture of [[listric]] [[reverse]] or [[decollement]] [[thrust fault]]s, large asymmetric [[hanging wall]] folds, and late listric [[normal fault]]s. These features are arranged to form an overall arcuate deformed belt. There is little or no involvement of mechanical [[basement]] in the deformation. Individual structures generally have good [[strike]] continuity and poor depth or [[dip]] continuity. Hence, in any newly discovered thrust belt, these same associations (thrust belt structural style) would be anticipated, modified somewhat by local geology. The concept of structural styles and their classification are given in Harding and Lowell<ref name=Harding_Lowell_1979>Harding, T. P., and J. D. Lowell, 1979, Structural styles, their plate-tectonic habitats and hydrocarbon traps in petroleum provinces: AAPG Bulletin, v. 63, p. 1016-1058.</ref> and Lowell.<ref name=ch20r215>Lowell, J., D., 1985, Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration: Tulsa, OGCI, 460 p.</ref>

==Choosing techniques==

==Choosing techniques==