Applications in Mineral Deposits Applications in Oil and Gas Fields Influences of Plate Tectonics on oil exploration are pervasive in having opened the door for new ideas.
Tectonic activity is accepted as ongoing and invidious.
Conspicuously, faults are reclassified as active and the addition of new ones is routinely accepted. The geologic cross-sections shown below illustrate this condition, and, at the same time, demonstrate the possibilities for exploration. Cross-sectional overview of the central San Joaquin Valley. The active Ortigalita Fault separates the Franciscan Terrain on the West from the over-steeped, Cretaceous formations on the east. These greatly steepened Cretaceous formations, in turn, contrast sharply with the low dips of the formations occurring beneath the Valley proper.