Structural Evolution of the Ainsa Deep-Water Fold and Thrust Belt in the Central Pyrenees and Syn-Tectonic Evolution of the Related Sedimentary Systems

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep Anton Muñoz* ◽  
Pau Arbués ◽  
Kenneth R. McClay ◽  
Miguel López-Blanco ◽  
Mireia Butillé
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Structural Evolution ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Central Pyrenees

Integrated Cretaceous–Cenozoic plate tectonics and structural geology in southern Mexico

2020 ◽  
pp. SP504-2020-70
Author(s):  
Rod Graham ◽  
James Pindell ◽  
Diego Villagómez ◽  
Roberto Molina-Garza ◽  
James Granath ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Plate Boundary ◽  
Structural Evolution ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Cocos Plate ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Arc Volcanism ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

AbstractThe structural evolution of southern Mexico is described in the context of its plate tectonic evolution and illustrated by two restored crustal scale cross-sections through Cuicateco and the Veracruz Basin and a third across Chiapas. We interpret the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous opening of an oblique hyper-stretched intra-arc basin between the Cuicateco Belt and Oaxaca Block of southern Mexico where Lower Cretaceous deep-water sediments accumulated. These rocks, together with the hyper-stretched basement beneath them and the Oaxaca Block originally west of them, were thrust onto the Cretaceous platform of the Cuicateco region during a Late Cretaceous–Eocene orogenic event. The mylonitic complex of the Sierra de Juárez represents this hyper-stretched basement, perhaps itself an extensional allochthon. The Chiapas fold-and-thrust belt is mainly Neogene in age. Shallowing of the subduction angle of the Cocos Plate in the wake of the Chortis Block, suggested by seismicity and migrating arc volcanism, is thought to play an important role in the development of the Chiapas fold-and-thrust belt itself, helping to explain the structural dilemma of a vertical transcurrent plate boundary fault (the Tonalá Fault) at the back of an essentially dip-slip fold-and-thrust belt.

The Oligocene–Miocene tectonic evolution of the northern Outer Carpathian fold-and-thrust belt: insights from compression-and-rotation analogue modelling experiments

2013 ◽  
Vol 150 (6) ◽  
pp. 1062-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTA RAUCH
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Structural Evolution ◽  
Suitable Model ◽  
Accretionary Wedge ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Clockwise Rotation ◽  
The North ◽  
Analogue Modelling ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Outer Carpathians

AbstractThis paper presents the different analogue scenarios of the tectonic evolution of the northern Outer Carpathians (i.e. the Western and northern Eastern Outer Carpathians) which formed as an accretionary wedge in front of the East Alpine–Carpathian–Pannonian (ALCAPA) block during Oligocene–Miocene times. Currently, this fold-and-thrust belt forms an arc which is asymmetrically convex to the north and wider in its eastern part. Palaeomagnetic investigations have suggested that the rocks of the arc underwent counter-clockwise rotation along almost the whole arc, which is difficult to explain as an effect of simple indentation of the triangular indenter. In this case two branches of the arc should be rotated in the opposite directions. The structural evolution of the Western Outer Carpathians is characterized by superposition of two successive tectonic shortening events directed N–S and NE–SW. The results of the presented analogue modelling suggest that two scenarios of the geodynamic evolution of the studied belt could explain the occurrence of such differently oriented shortening events: (1) two phases of differently directed indentation (first to the N, then to the NE) and (2) indenter movement to the NE with simultaneous counter-clockwise rotation. However, the experiment in which the moving indenter is simultaneously rotated produces the most suitable model. The counter-clockwise rotation of the material is only possible in front of both sides of the convex indenter in this model. The results of the analogue modelling also prove that rotation of the ALCAPA block started after formation of the Magura nappe (the innermost nappe of the Western Outer Carpathians).

Structure and tectonic evolution of the South Patagonian fold and thrust belt: Coupling between subduction dynamics, climate and tectonic deformation

2019 ◽  
pp. 675-697
Author(s):  
Matías C. Ghiglione ◽  
Gonzalo Ronda ◽  
Rodrigo J. Suárez ◽  
Inés Aramendía ◽  
Vanesa Barberón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Tectonic Deformation ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
The South ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

Spatio-temporal structural evolution of the Kohat fold and thrust belt of Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 104310
Author(s):  
Humaad Ghani ◽  
Edward R. Sobel ◽  
Gerold Zeilinger ◽  
Johannes Glodny ◽  
Irum Irum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Evolution ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Response of unconfined turbidity current to deep‐water fold and thrust belt topography: Orthogonal incidence on solitary and segmented folds

Sedimentology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 2425-2454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle M. Howlett ◽  
Zhiyuan Ge ◽  
Wojciech Nemec ◽  
Rob L. Gawthorpe ◽  
Atle Rotevatn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Turbidity Current ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

Structure of the Gare Kakheti foothills using seismic reflection profiles: implications for kinematic evolution of the Georgian part of Kura foreland fold-and-thrust belt

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Razmadze
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Structural Evolution ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Fault Propagation ◽  
Seismic Reflection Data ◽  
Growth Strata ◽  
Kinematic Evolution ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

<p>Gare Kakheti foothills are located between Lesser Caucasus and Kakheti Ridge and are mainly represented by the series of NEN dipping thrust faults, most of which are associated with fault‐related folds. Gare Kakheti foothills as a part of the Kura foreland fold-and-thrust belt developed formerly as a foreland basin (Oligocene-Lower Miocene) (e.g. Alania et al., 2017). Neogene shallow marine and continental sediments in the Gare Kakheti foothills keep the record on the stratigraphy and structural evolution of the study area during the compressive deformation. Interpreted seismic profiles and structural cross-sections across the Udabno, Tsitsmatiani, and Berebisseri synclines show that they are thrust-top basins. Seismic reflection data reveal the presence of growth fault-propagation folds and some structural wedges (or duplex). The evolution of the Udabno, Tsitsmatiani, and Berebisseri basins is compared with simple models of thrust-top basins whose development is controlled by the kinematics of competing for growth anticlines. Growth anticlines are mainly represented by fault-propagation folds. The geometry of growth strata in associated footwall synclines and the sedimentary infill of thrust-top basins provide information on the thrusting activity in terms of location, geometry, and age.<br>This work was supported by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (SRNSF - #PHDF-19-268).</p><p> </p>

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