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Basement Faults and Their Relationships to Salt Plugs in the Arabian Platform in Southern Iran


Conclusion
The displacement and bending of anticlines and synclines, the location of salt domes, concentration of earthquake epicenters and the truncation of structures indicate a close relationship between basement faults, salt plugs and epicenters. By means of all these phenomena, the location and the trend of basement faults have been accurately mapped. These basement faults are strike-slip faults which are bounded by Oman line in the east and can be interpreted as the effect of the opening of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden (Figure 3).


Figure 3.

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