The vertical displacements associated with transcurrent faulting

The results of an earlier paper (Chinnery, 1961) are used in this discussion of the nature of the vertical displacements that should accompany movement on a transcurrent fault. In spite of the inadequacies of the model, it is shown that the uplift and subsidence caused in this way may be quite large and may form a complex pattern. The theory also suggests that permanent vertical deformations of some magnitude may occur at considerable distances from such a fault. Since some faults appear to have very large horizontal movements, these results could be of great significance in geotectonics, and a program of geophysical and geological investigations to study this effect is suggested.