Solution

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Use normalized image coordinates within the map rectangle, with at its upper left and at its lower right. A principal candidate thrust fault trace follows the sharp, approximately diagonal southwestern edge of the dissected high ground on the right: a practical tracing guide passes near
Mark the upland, upper-right side as hanging wall and the smoother, lower-left basin side as footwall for a thrust dipping beneath the uplands. Use broken lines through the gaps, not one asserted continuous exposed rupture. A subsidiary candidate frontal segment follows the basin-facing edge of the isolated dissected ridge on the left, approximately through to ; place teeth toward its locally higher ridge side.
Figure 1.
Original interpretation guides for both attachments: provisional traces, block motion and drainage markers in normalized image coordinates
. Details.
These are geomorphic interpretations of mountain fronts and scarps, not measured subsurface dip directions. On a conventional north-up reading the principal trend is broadly northwest–southeast, but the supplied map has no north arrow: the image-relative coordinates are the reproducible identification. Southwestern illumination means southwest-facing slopes are bright; brightness is a slope-orientation clue, not an elevation contour. Some aligned relief may be a fold scarp or an eroded lithological contact, so field confirmation and topographic profiles would test the candidate traces.

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