Production of imbricate faulting by the propagating (traveling) decollement. As the oceanic plate shoals, and the sedimentary shelf thins, when the propagating decollement separates the shelf from the oceanic crust, dominant imbricate faulting is produced, rather than dominant folding as for the region near the locked RTB-thrust (Fig. 8) where the shelf is much thicker.

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