scholarly journals Structure, paleogeographic inheritance, and deformation history of the southern Atlas foreland fold and thrust belt of Tunisia

Tectonics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Aymen Saïd ◽  
Patrice Baby ◽  
Dominique Chardon ◽  
Jamel Ouali
Keyword(s):  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Deformation History ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Sandstone Petrology and Provenance in Fold Thrust Belt and Foreland Basin System

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore Critelli ◽  
Sara Criniti
Keyword(s):  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Continental Block ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Geodynamic Processes ◽  
Dual Plate ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sandstone Composition ◽  
Main Producer

The sandstone composition of foreland basin has a wide range of provenance signatures, reflecting the interplay between flexed underplate region and abrupt growth of the accreted upper plate region. The combination of contrasting detrital signatures reflects these dual plate interactions; indeed, several cases figure out that the earliest history of older foreland basin infilling is marked by quartz-rich sandstones, with cratonal or continental-block provenance of the flexed underplate flanks. As upper plate margin grows over the underplate, the nascent fold-and-thrust belt starts to be the main producer of grain particles, reflecting the space/time dependent progressive unroofing of the subjacent orogenic source terranes. The latter geodynamic processes are mainly reflected in the nature of sandstone compositions that become more lithic fragment-rich and feldspar-rich as the fold-thrust belt involves the progressive deepest portions of upper plate crustal terranes. In this context sandstone signatures reflect quartzolithic to quartzofeldspathic compositions.

Deformation history of the southwestern Taiwan foreland thrust belt: insights from tectono-sedimentary analyses and balanced cross-sections

2001 ◽  
Vol 333 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 293-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Mouthereau ◽  
O Lacombe ◽  
B Deffontaines ◽  
J Angelier ◽  
S Brusset
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Deformation History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Southwestern Taiwan

scholarly journals Insights into the Thermal History of North-Eastern Switzerland—Apatite Fission Track Dating of Deep Drill Core Samples from the Swiss Jura Mountains and the Swiss Molasse Basin

Geosciences ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Diego Villagómez Díaz ◽  
Silvia Omodeo-Salé ◽  
Alexey Ulyanov ◽  
Andrea Moscariello
Keyword(s):  
Fission Track ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Molasse Basin ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Apatite Fission Track ◽  
Jura Mountains ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
North Alpine Foreland Basin ◽  
History Of ◽  
Swiss Jura

This work presents new apatite fission track LA–ICP–MS (Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) data from Mid–Late Paleozoic rocks, which form the substratum of the Swiss Jura mountains (the Tabular Jura and the Jura fold-and-thrust belt) and the northern margin of the Swiss Molasse Basin. Samples were collected from cores of deep boreholes drilled in North Switzerland in the 1980s, which reached the crystalline basement. Our thermochronological data show that the region experienced a multi-cycle history of heating and cooling that we ascribe to burial and exhumation, respectively. Sedimentation in the Swiss Jura Mountains occurred continuously from Early Triassic to Early Cretaceous, leading to the deposition of maximum 2 km of sediments. Subsequently, less than 1 km of Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic sediments were slowly eroded during the Late Cretaceous, plausibly as a consequence of the northward migration of the forebulge of the neo-forming North Alpine Foreland Basin. Following this event, the whole region remained relatively stable throughout the Paleogene. Our data show that the Tabular Jura region resumed exhumation at low rates in early–middle Miocene times (≈20–15 Ma), whereas exhumation in the Jura fold-and-thrust belt probably re-started later, in the late Miocene (≈10–5 Ma). Erosional exhumation likely continues to the present day. Despite sampling limitations, our thermochronological data record discrete periods of slow cooling (rates of about 1°C/My), which might preclude models of elevated cooling (due to intense erosion) in the Jura Mountains during the Miocene. The denudation (≈1 km) of the Tabular Jura region and the Jura fold-and-thrust belt (≈500 m) has provided sediments to the Swiss Molasse Basin since at least 20 Ma. The southward migration of deformation in the Jura mountains suggests that the molasse basin started to uplift and exhume only after 5 Ma, as suggested also by previous authors. The data presented here show that the deformation of the whole region is occurring in an out-of-sequence trend, which is more likely associated with the reactivation of thrust faults beneath the foreland basin. This deformation trend suggests that tectonics is the most determinant factor controlling denudation and exhumation of the region, whereas the recently proposed “climate-induced exhumation” mechanism might play a secondary role.

scholarly journals Paleostress field reconstruction and revised tectonic history of the Donbas fold and thrust belt (Ukraine and Russia)

Tectonics ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Saintot ◽  
Randell Stephenson ◽  
Arjan Brem ◽  
Sergiy Stovba ◽  
Vitaliy Privalov
Keyword(s):  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Field Reconstruction ◽  
Tectonic History ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
History Of
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