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Table 1 (continued )
# Structure type Maximum displacement (cm) Maximum thickness (cm) Length (cm) Kinematic Note
79 Zone of bands 9 12 Left lateral
80 Zone of bands 6 8 Left lateral
81 Zone of bands 7 6 Right lateral
82 Zone of bands 4 5 Right lateral
83 Zone of bands 3 2 Left lateral
84 Zone of bands 4 7 Left lateral
85 Zone of bands 3.8 5 Right lateral
86 Zone of bands 5.2 3.5 Right lateral
87 Zone of bands 8.5 5.5 Right lateral
88 Zone of bands 3 8 Left lateral
89 Fault 17 7 1900 Left-lateral Linked
90 Fault 31 12.8 1000 Right-lateral
91 Fault 32 8 2880 Right-lateral Linked
92 Fault 40 14 1450 Left-lateral
93 Fault 54.5 100 9200 Left-lateral Linked_jog zone
94 Fault 68 21 5193 Right-lateral Linked
95 Fault 76 26 6090 Left-lateral Linked
96 Fault 97 49 5193 Right-lateral Linked_jog zone
54 Fault 10 11 790 Right-lateral
55 Fault 17 7 900 Left-lateral
56 Fault 19 11 1030 Right-lateral
57 Fault 20 4 930 Right-lateral
58 Fault 32 5 1480 Right-lateral
97 Fault 140 30 Left lateral
98 Fault 34 11 Right lateral
99 Fault 15 7 Right lateral
100 Fault 21 20 Right lateral
101 Fault 30 18 Right lateral
102 Fault 170 59 Right lateral
103 Fault 24 21 Left lateral
104 Fault 18 26 right lateral
105 Fault 4.5 19 Right lateral
106 Fault 14 10 Left lateral
107 Fault 38 16 Left lateral
108 Fault 16 16 Left lateral
109 Fault 23 12 Right lateral
110 Fault 47 40 Right lateral
111 Fault 21 22 Right lateral
112 Fault 50 26 Left lateral
113 Fault 40 22 Left lateral
114 Fault 45 40 Right lateral
115 Fault 34 23 Right lateral
116 Fault 20 12 Right lateral
117 Fault 20 6 Right lateral
118 Fault 16 14 Right lateral
119 Fault 31 22 Left lateral
120 Fault 24 20 Left lateral
121 Fault 22 17 Left lateral
122 Fault 22 12 Left lateral
123 fault 30 26 Right lateral
124 Fault 14 16 Right lateral
125 Fault 24 23 Right lateral
126 Fault 60 27 Right lateral
127 Fault 25 16 Right lateral
128 Fault 24 18 Right lateral
129 Fault 15 10 Right lateral
130 Fault 29 31 Right lateral
131 Fault 14 10 Right lateral
132 Fault 13 15 Left lateral
133 Fault 13 22 Left lateral

prone to involve larger displacements for a given thickness than the smaller D values for the faults D/L distribution is interpreted to result
zones of bands. from the presence of linked faults in the fault population (see Fig. 8),
Displacement-length data define two distinct groups (see which are characterized by a greater length-displacement ratio in
Fig. 10c). The first one, which consists of single bands and zones of agreement with Cartwright et al. (1995) and Nicol et al. (2010).
bands, shows a power-law scaling relation with a slope of D ¼ 0.5 Moreover, we believe that both single compactive shear bands and
and, hence, a dependence of maximum displacement on the square zones of compactive shear bands are characterized by a significant
root of discontinuity length (D max ¼ aL 0.5 ), similar to that docu- component of initial compaction, which sharply decreases when the
mented by Fossen and Hesthammer (1997). Whereas, the second threshold values for transition from shear banding to cataclastic
group, consisting of well-developed faults, shows a power-law faulting is reached (Tondi et al., 2006a, Tondi, 2007).
scaling relation with an exponent D ¼ 0.7 smaller than the ex- As far as the size-frequency datasets of Fig. 11 are concerned,
pected value of D ¼ 1(Fossen et al., 2007; Schultz et al., 2008). The several sampling biases were taken into account while interpreting