Stratigraphic and tectonic study of Larderello-Travale basement rocks and its geothermal implications

Geothermics ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Puxeddu ◽  
P. Squarci ◽  
A. Rau ◽  
M. Tongiorgi ◽  
P.D. Burgassi
Keyword(s):  
Basement Rocks ◽  
Tectonic Study

Etude tectonique du secteur Pradoluengo-Alarcia, Sierra de la Demanda (chaines iberiques, Espagne)

1963 ◽  
Vol S7-V (7) ◽  
pp. 1068-1075
Author(s):  
Michel Colchen
Keyword(s):  
Basement Complex ◽  
Direction Parallel ◽  
The North ◽  
Basement Rocks ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
Tectonic Study

Abstract A tectonic study of the area northwest of Sierra de la Demanda (Spain) revealed Tertiary orogenic phases represented by overlaps and overturnings. Towards the northern border, the Cambrian overrides Carboniferous, Triassic and Jurassic formations; the Carboniferous-Triassic units appear overturned under the Cambrian; and the Jurassic formations are affected locally by a system of dislodged slices of nappes associated with imbricate basement rocks. Two major directions of deformation suggest the presence of two successive orogenic phases. The first phase, older than the Oligocene conglomerates, folded the units above the basement in a NW-SE direction, parallel to the north oriented horst in the basement complex. In the post-Oligocene phase NE-SW imbrication affected the conglomerates as well as the basement and overlying units.

Subsurface stratigraphy and basin-fill architecture of the late Paleozoic eastern Taos trough, northern New Mexico, U.S.A.

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
Nur Uddin Md Khaled Chowdhury ◽  
Dustin E. Sweet
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Sediment Accumulation ◽  
Late Paleozoic ◽  
North Central ◽  
The North ◽  
Basement Rocks ◽  
Basin Geometry ◽  
Deformation Event ◽  
Thrust System ◽  
Basin Fill

The greater Taos trough located in north-central New Mexico represents one of numerous late Paleozoic basins that formed during the Ancestral Rocky Mountains deformation event. The late Paleozoic stratigraphy and basin geometry of the eastern portion of the greater Taos trough, also called the Rainsville trough, is little known because the strata are all in the subsurface. Numerous wells drilled through the late Paleozoic strata provide a scope for investigating subsurface stratigraphy and basin-fill architecture of the Rainsville trough. Lithologic data obtained predominantly from petrophysical well logs combined with available biostratigraphic data from the greater Taos trough allows construction of a chronostratigraphic framework of the basin fill. Isopach- and structure-maps indicate that the sediment depocenter was just east of the El Oro-Rincon uplift and a westerly thickening wedge-shaped basin-fill geometry existed during the Pennsylvanian. These relationships imply that the thrust system on the east side of the Precambrian-cored El Oro-Rincon uplift was active during the Pennsylvanian and segmented the greater Taos trough into the eastern Rainsville trough and the western Taos trough. During the Permian, sediment depocenter(s) shifted more southerly and easterly and strata onlap Precambrian basement rocks of the Sierra Grande uplift to the east and Cimarron arch to the north of the Rainsville trough. Permian strata appear to demonstrate minimal influence by faults that were active during the Pennsylvanian and sediment accumulation occurred both in the basinal area as well as on previous positive-relief highlands. A general Permian decrease in eustatic sea level and cessation of local-fault-controlled subsidence indicates that regional subsidence must have affected the region in the early Permian.

INVESTIGATING PRE-CRETACEOUS BASEMENT ROCKS BENEATH THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. COASTAL PLAIN

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wright Horton ◽  
◽  
David L. Daniels ◽  
Patrick D. Duff ◽  
Anjana K. Shah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Basement Rocks

scholarly journals Tectonic Evolution of the SE West Siberian Basin (Russia): Evidence from Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology of Its Exposed Crystalline Basement

Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 604
Author(s):  
Evgeny V. Vetrov ◽  
Johan De Grave ◽  
Natalia I. Vetrova ◽  
Fedor I. Zhimulev ◽  
Simon Nachtergaele ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Fission Track ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Tectonic Activity ◽  
Apatite Fission Track ◽  
Tectonic Processes ◽  
Basement Rocks ◽  
Fission Track Thermochronology ◽  
History Of ◽  
West Siberian Basin

The West Siberian Basin (WSB) is one of the largest intracratonic Meso-Cenozoic basins in the world. Its evolution has been studied over the recent decades; however, some fundamental questions regarding the tectonic evolution of the WSB remain unresolved or unconfirmed by analytical data. A complete understanding of the evolution of the WSB during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras requires insights into the cooling history of the basement rocks as determined by low-temperature thermochronometry. We presented an apatite fission track (AFT) thermochronology study on the exposed parts of the WSB basement in order to distinguish tectonic activation episodes in an absolute timeframe. AFT dating of thirteen basement samples mainly yielded Cretaceous cooling ages and mean track lengths varied between 12.8 and 14.5 μm. Thermal history modeling based on the AFT data demonstrates several Mesozoic and Cenozoic intracontinental tectonic reactivation episodes affected the WSB basement. We interpreted the episodes of tectonic activity accompanied by the WSB basement exhumation as a far-field effect from tectonic processes acting on the southern and eastern boundaries of Eurasia during the Mesozoic–Cenozoic eras.

scholarly journals The first deep heat flow determination in crystalline basement rocks beneath the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

2014 ◽  
Vol 197 (2) ◽  
pp. 731-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Majorowicz ◽  
Judith Chan ◽  
James Crowell ◽  
Will Gosnold ◽  
Larry M. Heaman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flow ◽  
Sedimentary Basin ◽  
Crystalline Basement ◽  
Basement Rocks
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