Active tectonic deformation in a back-arc basin, Niigata Chuetsu province; insights from PSInSAR analysis and analogue model experiments.

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuhiro Yamada ◽  
Kokoro Kaneda ◽  
Toshimi Mizuno ◽  
Shigeki Kuzuoka ◽  
Kyosuke Onishi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Deformation ◽  
Analogue Model ◽  
Model Experiments ◽  
Active Tectonic ◽  
Back Arc

Evidence of Active Tectonic Deformation in Kishtwar Area, Jammu and Kashmir, Northwest Himalaya, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Ahsan ul Haq ◽  
S. K. Pandita ◽  
Yudhbir Singh ◽  
G. M. Bhat ◽  
Shiv Jyoti Pandey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Deformation ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Northwest Himalaya ◽  
Active Tectonic

How submarine channels (re)shape continental margins

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (11) ◽  
pp. 1581-1600
Author(s):  
Luke A. Pettinga ◽  
Zane R. Jobe
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Evolution Model ◽  
Sediment Supply ◽  
Tectonic Deformation ◽  
Continental Margins ◽  
Sedimentary Processes ◽  
Submarine Channels ◽  
Active Tectonic ◽  
Tectonic Settings ◽  
Longitudinal Profiles

ABSTRACT Submarine landscapes, like their terrestrial counterparts, are sculpted by autogenic sedimentary processes toward morphologies at equilibrium with their allogenic controls. While submarine channels and nearby, inter-channel continental-margin areas share boundary conditions (e.g., terrestrial sediment supply, tectonic deformation), there are significant differences between the style, recurrence, and magnitude of their respective autogenic sedimentary processes. We predict that these process-based differences affect the rates of geomorphic change and equilibrium (i.e., graded) morphologies of submarine-channel and continental-margin longitudinal profiles. To gain insight into this proposed relationship, we document, classify (using machine learning), and analyze longitudinal profiles from 50 siliciclastic continental margins and associated submarine channels which represent a range of sediment-supply regimes and tectonic settings. These profiles tend to evolve toward smooth, lower-gradient longitudinal profiles, and we created a “smoothness” metric as a proxy for the relative maturity of these profiles toward the idealized equilibrium profile. Generally, higher smoothness values occur in systems with larger sediment supply, and the smoothness of channels typically exceeds that of the associated continental margin. We propose that the high rates of erosion, bypass, and deposition via sediment gravity flows act to smooth and mature channel profiles more rapidly than the surrounding continental margin, which is dominated by less-energetic diffusive sedimentary processes. Additionally, tectonic deformation will act to reduce the smoothness of these longitudinal profiles. Importantly, the relationship between total sediment supply and the difference between smoothness values of associated continental margins and submarine channels (the “smoothness Δ”) follows separate trends in passive and active tectonic settings, which we attribute to the variability in relative rates of smoothness development between channelized and inter-channel environments in the presence or absence of tectonic deformation. We propose two endmember pathways by which continental margins and submarine channels coevolve towards their respective equilibrium profiles with increased sediment supply: 1) Coupled Evolution Model (common in passive tectonic settings), in which the smoothness Δ increases only slightly before remaining static, and 2) Decoupled Evolution Model (common in active tectonic settings), in which the smoothness Δ increases more rapidly and to a greater final value. Our analysis indicates that the interaction of the allogenic factors of sediment supply and tectonic deformation with the autogenic sedimentary processes characteristic of channelized and inter-channel areas of the continental margin may account for much of the variability between coevolution pathways and depositional architectures.

Overriding-plate deformation during micro-continent accretion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Erdős ◽  
Ritske S. Huismans ◽  
Claudio Faccenna
Keyword(s):  
Plate Boundary ◽  
Slab Thickness ◽  
Plate Boundaries ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Model Experiments ◽  
Plate Deformation ◽  
Convergent Plate Boundaries ◽  
The Right ◽  
Back Arc ◽  
Subducting Slab

<p>Both divergent and convergent plate boundaries had been studied extensively throughout the last five decades. Among a host of other aspects came the realization, that given the right circumstances, a broad extensional basin can form behind a convergent plate boundary. The exact mechanisms triggering back-arc extension and why they are episodic, lasting only for tens of millions of years is still debated. The absolute and relative velocities of the plates, the age of the subducting oceanic plate and the inherited rheological properties of the back-arc lithosphere are all thought to be key players, shaping the dynamics of the fore-arc - back-arc systems.</p><p>Here we use 2D mantle scale plane-strain thermo-mechanical model experiments to investigate how the accretion of small continental crustal terrains onto the overriding plate affect the dynamics of the subducting slab and the deformation of the overriding plate.</p><p>Our results suggest that slab-retreat and back-arc extension can be achieved through the combination of slow convergence and micro-continent accretion. Back-arc extension during fast convergence is also possible through the subsequent accretion of more than one micro-continental terrain. Moreover, even the accretion of one such terrain can produce short (1-5 My) episodes of extension-contraction-quiescence in the overriding plate. These episodes are connected to slab break-off events, slab-interaction with upper mantle phase-change boundaries and variations in slab-pull due varying slab thickness.</p><p>Our model experiments also result in complex structures in the overriding plate where discrete outcrops from a single oceanic basin are preserved on the surface hundreds of kilometres apart. This indicates that in nature a simple accretion scenario could produce a surface geological record that is difficult to decipher. Our results compare favourably to observations from the Aegean back-arc basin.</p>

Listric extensional fault systems - results of analogue model experiments

1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Ellis ◽  
K. R. McClay
Keyword(s):  
Analogue Model ◽  
Model Experiments ◽  
Fault Systems

Geomorphic analysis reveals active tectonic deformation on the eastern flank of the Pir Panjal Range, Kashmir Valley, India

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 2225-2235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shabir Ahmad ◽  
M. I. Bhat ◽  
Christopher Madden ◽  
B. S. Bali
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Deformation ◽  
Kashmir Valley ◽  
Eastern Flank ◽  
Active Tectonic

scholarly journals Identifikasi Deformasi Tektonik Aktif Berdasarkan Ekstraksi Kelurusan Morfologi dan Seismisitas di Sukabumi, Jawa Barat

EKSPLORIUM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Rizqi Muhammad Mahbub ◽  
Candra Ragil
Keyword(s):  
Active Fault ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Fault Reactivation ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
Tectonic Deformation ◽  
Fault Movement ◽  
Filtering Method ◽  
Active Tectonic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dominant Direction

ABSTRAK Pusat gempa bumi di Sukabumi telah membentuk deformasi bawah permukaan dan kini terekam juga di permukaan. Hal itu termanifestasi melalui geomorfologi kelurusan gawir dan sungai. Ekstraksi kelurusan-kelurusan akibat deformasi geologi tersebut dapat digunakan untuk mengidentifikasi deformasi tektonik aktifnya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan antara struktur sesar aktif dengan arah dominan kelurusan di daerah penelitian. Metode Edge Enhancing Filtering digunakan untuk menginterpretasi kelurusan secara manual dan semi-otomatis. Data geospasial kelurusan diekstraksi menggunakan formula Sastratenaya untuk mengetahui kronologi kelurusan yang terbentuk. Hasil analisis menggunakan formula Sastratenaya menunjukkan kelurusan-kelurusan yang terekam melalui olah data peta DEM, yaitu segmen 1 berarah N315°E dan segmen 2 berarah N10°E yang diinterpretasikan sebagai hasil reaktivasi sesar. Hal ini dapat diinterpretasikan bahwa Sesar Cimandiri, yang merupakan sesar aktif dengan pergerakan oblique-slip sinistral N88°E/85° rake 33°, memengaruhi arah dua segmen kelurusan di daerah penelitian wilayah Sukabumi, Jawa Barat.ABSTRACT The epicenter of the earthquake in Sukabumi has formed subsurface deformation which is now also recorded on the surface area. This is manifested through the geomorphology of the scarp and river lineaments. Extraction of lineaments produced by geological deformation can be used to identify its active tectonic deformation. The research objective is to determine the relationship between the active fault structure and the dominant direction of lineaments in the study area. The Edge Enhancing Filtering method is used to interpret lineaments manually and semi-automatically. The lineament geospatial data was extracted using the Sastratenaya formula to determine the chronology of the lineaments formed. The Sastratenaya formula results showed the lineaments recorded by DEM images data processing, the first segment direction is N315°E and the second is N10°E, both are interpreted as the result of fault reactivation. It can be interpreted that the Cimandiri Fault, which is an active fault that has an N88°E/85° rake 33° sinistral oblique-slip fault movement, affects the lineaments direction of two segments in the research area of Sukabumi, West Java.

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