The effects of plate margin inhomogeneity on the deformation pattern within west-Central Zagros Fold-and-Thrust Belt

2016 ◽  
Vol 693 ◽  
pp. 304-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaman Malekzade ◽  
Olivier Bellier ◽  
Mohammad Reza Abbassi ◽  
Esmaiel Shabanian ◽  
Christine Authemayou
Keyword(s):  
Deformation Pattern ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Plate Margin ◽  
West Central ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

New structural constraints on the southern Provence thrust belt (France): evidences for an Eocene shortening event linked to the Corsica-Sardinia subduction

2010 ◽  
Vol 181 (6) ◽  
pp. 547-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Andreani ◽  
Nicolas Loget ◽  
Claude Rangin ◽  
Xavier Le Pichon
Keyword(s):  
Structural Data ◽  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Deformation Pattern ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Flower Structure ◽  
Complex Deformation ◽  
Marine Deposits ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Continental Deposits

AbstractThe Eocene shortening directions along the Southern Provence fold-and-thrust belt are commonly assumed to be N-S. We present here new observations and data that allow reinterpreting the structure of the La Nerthe range as a right-lateral transpressive flower structure. Structural data collected along the range argue for an Eocene N145o shortening event. The age of this shortening event is constrained by the fact that faulting and folding affect the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene continental deposits along the northern flank of the La Nerthe range and is sealed by the Miocene marine deposits. Moreover striated fault planes display both horizontal and vertical striae suggesting that they were reactivated during the Oligocene extensional event. We question here the shortening directions along the Southern Provence thrust belt. Structural data suggest both N-S and NNW-SSE shortening directions during the Eocene. During the Eocene the Provence area was in the foreland of a complex orogenic belt that extended from the Betic Cordillera to the Corsica-Sardinia block. This orogenic belt developed along the subduction linked to the convergence between Africa and Eurasia. Although the convergence vector was nearly N-S the NE-SW orientation of the trench may have led to a complex deformation pattern along the orogenic belt with NW-SE and N-S shortening directions that reflected both the along-trench compression and the regional convergence.

Paleoseismology of a newly discovered scarp in the Yakima fold-and-thrust belt, Kittitas County, Washington

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Barnett ◽  
Brian L. Sherrod ◽  
Robert Norris ◽  
Douglas Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

QUANTIFYING SHORTENING ACROSS THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN FOLD-AND-THRUST BELT OF WEST VIRGINIA

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Benjamin Lammie ◽  
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Peter B. Sak ◽  
Nadine McQuarrie
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU CENTRAL GRAVITY HIGH AND ITS RELATION TO THE YAKIMA FOLD AND THRUST BELT, WASHINGTON

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew P. Lamb ◽  
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Richard J. Blakely ◽  
Ray E. Wells ◽  
Brian L. Sherrod ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Columbia Plateau ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Plateau Central
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