Pull-apart basin

[2][3] Recent sandbox models have shown that the geometry and evolution of pull-apart basins varies greatly in pure-strike slip situations versus transtensional settings.

[5][6] Pull-apart basins represent an important exploration target for oil and gas, porphyry copper mineralisation, and geothermal fields.

[7] The Dead Sea has been studied extensively and thinning of the crust in pull-aparts may generate differential loading and instigate salt diapirs to rise,[8] a frequent trap for hydrocarbons.

Likewise intense deformation and rapid subsidence and deposition in pull-aparts creates numerous structural and stratigraphic traps, enhancing their viability as hydrocarbon reservoirs.

[9] The shallow extensional regime of pull-apart basins also facilitates the emplacement of felsic intrusive rocks with high copper mineralisation.

[10] Geothermal fields are located in pull-aparts for the same reason due to the high heat flow associated with rising magmas.