| Abstract: | The existing kinematic classification of disjunctive dislocations takes into account only the relative displacements of their walls along the displacement surface in opposite directions. The topic of their absolute displacement has not yet been worked out, either in structural geology or in tectonophysics. As a result of analyzing various structural features, unconventional and often unexpected versions of their absolute displacements were worked out: the displacement of one wall along the displacement surface with an immovable second wall; displacement of both walls along the displacement surface in different (but not opposite) directions; displacement of one or both walls not along the displacement surface. It is imperative to concentrate one’s attention on the geological bodies themselves, and not on the fault boundaries between them, for thorough understanding of the faulting kinematics. |
