Geology, U – Pb, and Pb – Pb geochronology of the Lake Harbour area, southern Baffin Island: implications for the Paleoproterozoic tectonic evolution of northeastern Laurentia

1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Baffin Island ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Tonalitic Gneiss ◽  
Harbour Area

Geological and geochronological results of an investigation of the Paleoproterozoic siliciclastic and carbonate supracrustal rocks of the Lake Harbour Group (LHG) and surrounding tonalitic gneisses on southern Baffin Island are presented. Conventional U – Pb geochronology of monazite from rocks of the LHG suggest that penetrative deformation of these rocks occurred prior to, or during, peak metamorphic conditions at ca. 1845 –1840 Ma. Conventional U – Pb zircon results indicate that much of the tonalitic gneiss ranges in age from [Formula: see text] to 1827[Formula: see text]. The tonalitic gneisses and Lake Harbour Group units were tectonically imbricated by ca. 1805 Ma, and are part of a southwest-verging thrust belt interpreted from regional considerations to represent the northern continuation of the Ungava Orogen. The present results indicate that current tectonic models for the evolution of northeastern Laurentia that involve a dominantly Archean southeastern Rae province require revision. It is proposed that much of the metaigneous material that lies between the Archean Superior and Nain cratons represents a composite subduction-related domain.

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

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Qaidam basin and its surrounding regions (Part 1): The southern Qilian Shan-Nan Shan thrust belt and northern Qaidam basin

2008 ◽  
Vol 120 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 813-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Yin ◽  
Y.-Q. Dang ◽  
L.-C. Wang ◽  
W.-M. Jiang ◽  
S.-P. Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
Thrust Belt

Middle Miocene–Early Pliocene wedge-top basins of NW Sicily (Italy): constraints for the tectonic evolution of a ‘non-conventional’ thrust belt, affected by transpression

2014 ◽  
Vol 171 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Gugliotta ◽  
M. Gasparo Morticelli ◽  
G. Avellone ◽  
M. Agate ◽  
M. R. Barchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Early Pliocene

scholarly journals Strike-slip reactivation of a Paleogene to Miocene fold and thrust belt along the central part of the Mid-Hungarian Shear Zone

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 483-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Márton Palotai ◽  
László Csontos
Keyword(s):  
Shear Zone ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
3D Seismic ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Clockwise Rotation ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Detailed Interpretation ◽  
3D Seismic Data

Strike-slip reactivation of a Paleogene to Miocene fold and thrust belt along the central part of the Mid-Hungarian Shear ZoneRecently shot 3D seismic data allowed for a detailed interpretation, aimed at the tectonic evolution of the central part of the Mid-Hungarian Shear Zone (MHZ). The MHZ acted as a NW vergent fold and thrust belt in the Late Oligocene. The intensity of shortening increased westwards, causing clockwise rotation of the western regions, relatively to the mildly deformed eastern areas. Blind thrusting and related folding in the MHZ continued in the Early Miocene. Thrusting and gentle folding in the MHZ partly continued in the earliest Pannonian, and was followed by sinistral movements in the whole MHZ, with maximal displacement along the Tóalmás zone. Late Pannonian inversion activated thrusts and generated transpressional movements along the Tóalmás zone.

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.

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