Fractures and Subsidiary Faults Developed in the Active Strike‐Slip Nojima Fault Zone, Japan, and Tectonic Implications

Tectonics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 4290-4300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takafumi Nishiwaki ◽  
Aiming Lin
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Tectonic Implications ◽  
Nojima Fault

Studies on40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of strike-slip time of the Tan-Lu fault zone and their tectonic implications

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. 1002-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Zhu ◽  
Chuanzhong Song ◽  
Daoxuan Wang ◽  
Guosheng Liu ◽  
Jiawei Xu
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Tectonic Implications

scholarly journals Late Quaternary strike-slip along the Taohuala Shan-Ayouqi fault zone and its tectonic implications in the Hexi Corridor and the southern Gobi Alashan, China

2017 ◽  
Vol 721 ◽  
pp. 28-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing-xing Yu ◽  
Wen-jun Zheng ◽  
Pei-zhen Zhang ◽  
Qi-yun Lei ◽  
Xu-long Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Hexi Corridor ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Tectonic Implications

scholarly journals Kinematic partitioning in the Southern Andes (39° S–46° S) inferred from lineament analysis and reassessment of exhumation rates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Leon Göllner ◽  
Jan Oliver Eisermann ◽  
Catalina Balbis ◽  
Ivan A. Petrinovic ◽  
Ulrich Riller
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Vertical Displacement ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Structural Studies ◽  
Southern Andes ◽  
Plate Convergence ◽  
Exhumation Rates ◽  
Lineament Analysis ◽  
Dextral Strike Slip ◽  
Data Call

AbstractThe Southern Andes are often viewed as a classic example for kinematic partitioning of oblique plate convergence into components of continental margin-parallel strike-slip and transverse shortening. In this regard, the Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone, one of Earth’s most prominent intra-arc deformation zones, is believed to be the most important crustal discontinuity in the Southern Andes taking up margin-parallel dextral strike-slip. Recent structural studies, however, are at odds with this simple concept of kinematic partitioning, due to the presence of margin-oblique and a number of other margin-parallel intra-arc deformation zones. However, knowledge on the extent of such zones in the Southern Andes is still limited. Here, we document traces of prominent structural discontinuities (lineaments) from the Southern Andes between 39° S and 46° S. In combination with compiled low-temperature thermochronology data and interpolation of respective exhumation rates, we revisit the issue of kinematic partitioning in the Southern Andes. Exhumation rates are maximal in the central parts of the orogen and discontinuity traces, trending predominantly N–S, WNW–ESE and NE–SW, are distributed across the entire width of the orogen. Notably, discontinuities coincide spatially with large gradients in Neogene exhumation rates and separate crustal domains characterized by uniform exhumation. Collectively, these relationships point to significant components of vertical displacement on these discontinuities, in addition to horizontal displacements known from published structural studies. Our results agree with previously documented Neogene shortening in the Southern Andes and indicate orogen-scale transpression with maximal vertical extrusion of rocks in the center of the transpression zone. The lineament and thermochronology data call into question the traditional view of kinematic partitioning in the Southern Andes, in which deformation is focused on the Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone.

Seismic observations in the DPRI 1800 m borehole drilled into the Nojima Fault zone, south-west Japan

Island Arc ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 288-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kin'Ya Nishigami ◽  
Masataka Ando ◽  
Keiichi Tadokoro
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
South West ◽  
Nojima Fault

40Ar/39Ar dating of strike-slip motion on the Tan–Lu fault zone, East China

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 1379-1398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Zhu ◽  
Yongsheng Wang ◽  
Guosheng Liu ◽  
Manlan Niu ◽  
Chenglong Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
East China ◽  
Slip Motion

Queen Charlotte fault zone: microearthquakes from a temporary array of land stations and ocean bottom seismographs

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 776-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Hyndman ◽  
R. M. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Ocean Bottom ◽  
Small Component ◽  
Queen Charlotte Islands ◽  
The North ◽  
Vertical Fault ◽  
Linear Sections ◽  
Ocean Bottom Seismographs ◽  
Steep Slopes

A temporary array of land and ocean bottom seismograph stations was used to accurately locate microearthquakes on the Queen Charlotte fault zone, which occurs along the continental margin of western Canada. The continental slope has two steep linear sections separated by a 25 km wide irregular terrace at a depth of 2 km. Eleven events were located with magnitudes from 0.5 to 2.0, 10 of them beneath the landward one of the two steep slopes, some 5 km off the coast of the southern Queen Charlotte Islands. No events were located beneath the seaward and deeper steep slope. The depths of seven of these events were constrained by the data to between 9 and 21 km with most near 20 km. The earthquake and other geophysical data are consistent with a near vertical fault zone having mainly strike-slip motion. A model including a small component of underthrusting in addition to strike-slip faulting is suggested to account for the some 15° difference between the relative motion of the North America and Pacific plates from plate tectonic models and the strike of the margin. One event was located about 50 km inland of the main active zone and probably occurred on the Sandspit fault. The rate of seismicity on the Queen Charlotte fault zone during the period of the survey was similar to that predicted by the recurrence relation for the region from the long-term earthquake record.

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