Subsidence controls on foreland basin development of northwestern offshore Cuba, southeastern Gulf of Mexico

AAPG Bulletin ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Escalona ◽  
Wenxiu Yang
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Basin Development

Timing of magmatism, foreland basin development, metamorphism and inversion in the Anglo-Brabant fold belt

1997 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. 607-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. VAN GROOTEL ◽  
J. VERNIERS ◽  
B. GEERKENS ◽  
D. LADURON ◽  
M. VERHAEREN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Fold Belt ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Basin Inversion ◽  
Tectonic Model ◽  
The North ◽  
Basin Development ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
And Inversion

New data implying crustal activation of Eastern Avalonia along the Anglo-Brabant fold belt are presented. Late Ordovician subduction-related magmatism in East Anglia and the Brabant Massif, coupled with accelerated subsidence in the Anglia Basin and in the Brabant Massif during Silurian time, indicate a foreland basin development. Final collision resulted in folding, cleavage development and thrusting during the mid-Lochkovian to mid-Eifelian. In the southeast of the Anglo-Brabant fold belt, Acadian deformation produced basin inversion and the regional antiformal structure of the Brabant Massif. The uplift, inferred from the sedimentology, petrography and reworked palynomorphs in the Lower Devonian of the Dinant Synclinorium is confirmed by illite crystallinity studies. The tectonic model discussed implies the presence of two subduction zones in the eastern part of Eastern Avalonia, one along the Anglo-Brabant fold belt and another under the North Sea in the prolongation of the North German–Polish Caledonides.

scholarly journals Retro‐foreland Basin Development in Response to Proto‐Tethyan Ocean Closure, NE Tibet Plateau

Tectonics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 4229-4248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Yan ◽  
Changlei Fu ◽  
Jonathan C. Aitchison ◽  
Solomon Buckman ◽  
Manlan Niu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
Basin Development

Tectonic controls on Cenozoic foreland basin development in the north-eastern Andes, Colombia

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Parra ◽  
Andrés Mora ◽  
Carlos Jaramillo ◽  
Vladimir Torres ◽  
Gerold Zeilinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreland Basin ◽  
The North ◽  
Basin Development ◽  
North Eastern

scholarly journals Middle–Upper Ordovician and Silurian stratigraphy and basin development in southernmost Scandinavia

1969 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 39-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels H. Schovsbo ◽  
Arne T. Nielsen ◽  
Mikael Erlström
Keyword(s):  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
Lower Silurian ◽  
Basin Development ◽  
Caledonian Orogeny

A complete log-stratigraphical breakdown of the Middle Ordovician to lower Silurian shale-dominated succession is presented for the Bornholm–Skåne–Kattegat area in southernmost Scandinavia. A wireline log zonation developed for the onshore Bornholm Palaeozoic shales is extended to include the offshore Palaeozoic shales in the adjacent Rønne Graben. A complete log zonation scheme for the Cyrtograptus shale (late Llandovery–Wenlock) and the lower part of the Colonus shale (Ludlow) is presented including correlation within the Bornholm–Skåne–Kattegat area. The Cyrtograptus shale in the Bornholm area is estimated to be 400 m thick and marks the shift to a rapidly subsiding foreland basin, heralding the Caledonian Orogeny.

Mass-transport deposits and the onset of wedge-top basin development: An example from the Dinaric Foreland Basin, Croatia

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (11) ◽  
pp. 1527-1548
Author(s):  
Katarina Gobo ◽  
Ervin Mrinjek ◽  
Vlasta Ćosović
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transport ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Combined Effect ◽  
Tectonic Activity ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Basin Development ◽  
Blind Thrust ◽  
Mass Transport Deposits

ABSTRACT Mass-transport deposits (MTDs) represent resedimentation phenomena triggered by the combined effect of seismic shocks of regional scale, structural tilting, basin-floor gradient, relative sea-level fluctuations, and/or excess pore-water pressure and can be useful in the reconstruction of basin development dynamics. The present study from the Dinaric Foreland Basin in Croatia documents several limestone blocks (olistoliths), carbonate debris, and associated bipartite carbonate megabeds as MTDs of exotic origin encased in deep neritic hyperpycnites, referred to as host deposits. Detailed facies and micropaleontological analyses indicate that host deposits were sourced from a fluvio-deltaic system located in the proximity of the uplifting orogen, while the MTDs originated from gravitational collapses of late Ypresian and early Lutetian limestones that were uplifted on blind-thrust anticline ridges on the opposite side of the basin. Mass wasting-produced carbonate blocks, debris, and gravity flows were probably triggered concurrently during the middle to late Eocene, but the blocks could have travelled faster downslope due to the lubricating effect of the underlying water “cushion,” overpressured mud, and the pull of gravity. Debrisflows and co-genetic turbidity currents that contributed to the formation of bipartite megabeds were likely mobilized deeper and moved slower than the carbonate blocks and could have been partly deflected by the previously emplaced olistoliths, resulting in megabed thinning along the olistoliths' down-dip edges. Those collapses were most likely triggered by the combined effect of relative sea-level changes associated with tectonic activity and seismic shocks of regional scale. The study suggests that progressive uplift of the frontal blind-thrust anticline ridge resulted in episodic emergence and collapses of progressively older limestone units, and marked the onset of development of the wedge-top basin. Conceptual models of olistolith emplacement and onset of basin development are suggested and may be applicable to both ancient and recent settings. The insights obtained from the integration of detailed facies analysis and micropaleontology may be useful in similar areas where such a level of detail cannot be obtained by conventional field methods.

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