ABSTRACT Field exposures of Lower Cretaceous strata in the Oliete sub‐basin (eastern
Spain) allow identification of syn‐rift features such as listric and planar normal faults, rotated
fault blocks, fault‐related folds, sharp thickness variations and wedge‐shaped sedimentary
geometries, as well as intra‐rift angular unconformities defined by the erosive truncation of
rotated fault blocks and the onlap of upper units. The combined use of both stratigraphic and
extensional tectonic features at the outcrop scale has allowed us to characterise different�…

Lateral extent and continuity of deformation has been used as criterion for the recognition of
a seismic origin of soft-sediment deformations. Particular problems are posed by ancient
seismites developed in deposits that show lateral variability of sedimentary facies. In such a
context, the lateral continuity of deformation will depend on the lateral variability of physical
properties of sediments that ultimately results in the lateral variability of seismites in a single
deformation event. A variety of decimetre-scale soft-sediment deformation structures occurs�…