Serial deformation

The concept of serial folding was convincingly applied by Douglas Shearman to the coastal Zagros of Iran. By association, the progressive rotation of imbricate faults in sedimentary prisms at subduction zones off the Makran and Sumatra and in Taiwan has been termed serial faulting. A large-scale version of serial folding is proposed for the buckling that characterizes Chile landwards of the Peru-Chile trench; the deformation can be traced by reference to Holocene palaeoshorelines and geodetic measurements. A similar effect has been proposed for peninsular India.