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Folds with axes almost parallel to the mean tectonic transport direction are frequent in fold-thrust belts, particularly along the borders of arcuate belts. Such structures have been frequently explained in terms of superimposed tectonic events but, in some cases, they are most realistically understood in terms of lateral folds inherited from lateral footwall ramps and initiated subparallel to the...