Large-scale strike-slip faults are associated with significant strain partitioning in releasing/restraining bends and often display map-view curvatures ending in horse-tail geometries. Such faults are commonly associated with indentation tectonics, where shortening in front of indenters is transferred laterally to transpression, strike-slip and the formation of transtensional/extensional basins. We investigate how these structurally distinct domains are kinematically linked by the means of a crustal-scale analogue modelling approach where a deformable crust is moved against a stable and rigid indenter. The modelling demonstrates that the geometry of the indenter is the major controlling parameter driving strain partitioning and deformation transfer from thrusting and transpression to strike-slip and transtension, whereas the rotation of the mobile plate controls the opening of triangular shaped transtensional basins. Flow of the ductile crust leads to the distribution of deformation over a wider area, facilitating strike-slip splaying into transtension/extension behind the indenter. Our results show a very good correlation with the Moesian indentation in the Carpatho-Balkanides system of South-Eastern Europe, where strain is partitioned around the dextral Cerna and Timok strike-slip faults and transferred to thrusting in the Balkanides part of the Moesian indenter and to transtension/extension in the neighbouring South Carpathians.

大规模走滑断层与释放/限制弯曲中的显着应变分区相关联，并且经常显示以马尾几何形状结尾的地图视图曲率。这种断层通常与压痕构造有关，其中压痕前的缩短横向转移到挤压、走滑和张张/伸展盆地的形成。我们研究了这些结构不同的域如何通过地壳尺度模拟建模方法在运动学上联系起来，其中可变形的地壳靠着稳定和刚性的压头移动。建模表明，压头的几何形状是驱动应变分配和变形从推拉和压向向走滑和横拉传递的主要控制参数，而移动板的旋转控制三角形张拉盆地的开口。韧性地壳的流动导致变形分布在更广泛的区域，促进走滑向压头后面的拉伸/延伸。我们的结果显示与东南欧 Carpatho-Balkanides 系统中的 Moesian 压痕有很好的相关性，其中应变在右旋 Cerna 和 Timok 走滑断层周围分配，并转移到 Moesian 压痕器的 Balkanides 部分的逆冲推力和到邻近的南喀尔巴阡山脉的过渡/延伸。促进在压头后面张开的滑移。我们的结果显示与东南欧 Carpatho-Balkanides 系统中的 Moesian 压痕有很好的相关性，其中应变在右旋 Cerna 和 Timok 走滑断层周围分配，并转移到 Moesian 压痕器的 Balkanides 部分的逆冲推力和到邻近的南喀尔巴阡山脉的过渡/延伸。促进在压头后面张开的滑移。我们的结果显示与东南欧 Carpatho-Balkanides 系统中的 Moesian 压痕有很好的相关性，其中应变在右旋 Cerna 和 Timok 走滑断层周围分配，并转移到 Moesian 压痕器的 Balkanides 部分的逆冲推力和到邻近的南喀尔巴阡山脉的过渡/延伸。