Tectonic Evolution of the Ixtapa Graben, an Example of a Strike-slip Basin of Southeastern MexicoImplications for Regional Petroleum Systems

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier J. Meneses-Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Petroleum Systems

Precambrian tectonic evolution of Earth: an outline

2021 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.F. Dewey ◽  
E.S. Kiseeva ◽  
J.A. Pearce ◽  
L.J. Robb
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Crustal Material ◽  
Plate Tectonic ◽  
Single Plate

Abstract Space probes in our solar system have examined all bodies larger than about 400 km in diameter and shown that Earth is the only silicate planet with extant plate tectonics sensu stricto. Venus and Earth are about the same size at 12 000 km diameter, and close in density at 5 200 and 5 500 kg.m-3 respectively. Venus and Mars are stagnant lid planets; Mars may have had plate tectonics and Venus may have had alternating ca. 0.5 Ga periods of stagnant lid punctuated by short periods of plate turnover. In this paper, we contend that Earth has seen five, distinct, tectonic periods characterized by mainly different rock associations and patterns with rapid transitions between them; the Hadean to ca. 4.0 Ga, the Eo- and Palaeoarchaean to ca. 3.1 Ga, the Neoarchaean to ca. 2.5 Ga, the Proterozoic to ca. 0.8 Ga, and the Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic. Plate tectonics sensu stricto, as we know it for present-day Earth, was operating during the Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic, as witnessed by features such as obducted supra-subduction zone ophiolites, blueschists, jadeite, ruby, continental thin sediment sheets, continental shelf, edge, and rise assemblages, collisional sutures, and long strike-slip faults with large displacements. From rock associations and structures, nothing resembling plate tectonics operated prior to ca. 2.5 Ga. Archaean geology is almost wholly dissimilar from Proterozoic-Phanerozoic geology. Most of the Proterozoic operated in a plate tectonic milieu but, during the Archaean, Earth behaved in a non-plate tectonic way and was probably characterised by a stagnant lid with heat-loss by pluming and volcanism, together with diapiric inversion of tonalite-trondjemite-granodiorite (TTG) basement diapirs through sinking keels of greenstone supracrustals, and very minor mobilism. The Palaeoarchaean differed from the Neoarchaean in having a more blobby appearance whereas a crude linearity is typical of the Neoarchaean. The Hadean was probably a dry stagnant lid Earth with the bulk of its water delivered during the late heavy bombardment, when that thin mafic lithosphere was fragmented to sink into the asthenosphere and generate the copious TTG Ancient Grey Gneisses (AGG). During the Archaean, a stagnant unsegmented, lithospheric lid characterised Earth, although a case can be made for some form of mobilism with “block jostling”, rifting, compression and strike-slip faulting on a small scale. We conclude, following Burke and Dewey (1973), that there is no evidence for subduction on a global scale before about 2.5 Ga, although there is geochemical evidence for some form of local recycling of crustal material into the mantle during that period. After 2.5 Ga, linear/curvilinear deformation belts were developed, which “weld” cratons together and palaeomagnetism indicates that large, lateral, relative motions among continents had begun by at least 1.88 Ga. The “boring billion”, from about 1.8 to 0.8 Ga, was a period of two super-continents (Nuna, also known as Columbia, and Rodinia) characterised by substantial magmatism of intraplate type leading to the hypothesis that Earth had reverted to a single plate planet over this period; however, orogens with marginal accretionary tectonics and related magmatism and ore genesis indicate that plate tectonics was still taking place at and beyond the bounds of these supercontinents. The break-up of Rodinia heralded modern plate tectonics from about 0.8 Ga. Our conclusions are based, almost wholly, upon geological data sets, including petrology, ore geology and geochemistry, with minor input from modelling and theory.

scholarly journals Timing of Paleozoic Exhumation and Deformation of the High-Pressure Vestgӧtabreen Complex at the Motalafjella Nunatak, Svalbard

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Barnes ◽  
Katarzyna Walczak ◽  
Emilie Janots ◽  
David Schneider ◽  
Jarosław Majka
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
White Mica ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Structural Studies ◽  
Metamorphic Overprint ◽  
Subaerial Exposure ◽  
Facies Metamorphism

The Vestgӧtabreen Complex exposed in the Southwestern Caledonian Basement Province of Svalbard comprises two Caledonian high-pressure units. In situ white mica 40Ar/39Ar and monazite Th-U-total Pb geochronology has resolved the timing of the tectonic evolution of the complex. Cooling of the Upper Unit during exhumation occurred at 476 ± 2 Ma, shortly after eclogite-facies metamorphism. The two units were juxtaposed at 454 ± 6 Ma. This was followed by subaerial exposure and deposition of Bullbreen Group sediments. A 430–400 Ma late Caledonian phase of thrusting associated with major sinistral shearing throughout Svalbard deformed both the complex and the overlying sediments. This phase of thrusting is prominently recorded in the Lower Unit, and is associated with a pervasive greenschist-facies metamorphic overprint of high-pressure lithologies. A c. 365–344 Ma geochronological record may represent an Ellesmerian tectonothermal overprint. Altogether, the geochronological evolution of the Vestgӧtabreen Complex, with previous petrological and structural studies, suggests that it may be a correlative to the high-pressure Tsäkkok Lens in the Scandinavian Caledonides. It is suggested that the Vestgӧtabreen Complex escaped to the periphery of the orogen along the sinistral strike-slip shear zones prior to, or during the initial stages of continental collision between Baltica and Laurentia.

Structural variety and tectonic evolution of strike-slip basins related to the Philippine Fault System, northern Luzon, Philippines

Tectonics ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Claude Ringenbach ◽  
Nicolas Pinet ◽  
Jean François Stéphan ◽  
Jean Delteil
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Fault System ◽  
Structural Variety

Stress fields recorded on large-scale strike-slip fault systems: Effects on the tectonic evolution of crustal slivers during oblique subduction

2015 ◽  
Vol 664 ◽  
pp. 244-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenio E. Veloso ◽  
Rodrigo Gomila ◽  
José Cembrano ◽  
Rodrigo González ◽  
Erik Jensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Strike Slip Fault ◽  
Stress Fields ◽  
Oblique Subduction ◽  
Fault Systems

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.

scholarly journals Ocena wpływu nasuwającego się górotworu karpackiego na przebieg procesów naftowych w utworach jego podłoża w rejonie Rzeszowa

Nafta-Gaz ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 351-365
Author(s):  
Karol Spunda ◽  
◽  
Tomasz Słoczyński ◽  
Krzysztof Sowiżdżał ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Source Rocks ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Petroleum Systems ◽  
Geological Processes ◽  
Lower Palaeozoic ◽  
Outer Carpathians

The article presents the concept of petroleum systems modeling in the area with complex fold-thrust belt structure. The aim of the study was to verify the views on the influence of the overtrusting Carpathian orogen on the course of petroleum processes in the basement (Meso-Palaeozoic) formations. The project was implemented in the marginal zone of the Skole Unit (Outer Carpathians) overlapping various structural and tectonic units of the basement. The area of Rzeszów city was selected as it presents adequate complexity of the geological structure to meet assumed methodological objectives of the project and, at the same time, provides relatively vast amount of geological data available which creates a conditions for a comprehensive approach. The study was carried out using the Dynel 2D and PetroMod 2D software. The course of the structural and tectonic evolution of the area was reconstructed in 5 stages, the results of which were subsequently applied in a dynamic modeling of the petroleum systems. The modeling results made it possible to recreate and analyze the course of a complex geological processes, the effects of which are manifested, among others, by the time and amounts of generated hydrocarbons as well as the dynamics of expulsion, migration and accumulation processes. The results show the course of petroleum processes in each stage of the petroleum basin evolution, revealing a special role of thrust tectonic of Outer Carpathians on basement formations. For the adopted assumptions of the structural and tectonic evolution, the generation of hydrocarbons by Lower Palaeozoic source rocks was initiated with the overthrusting of the Carpathians. This increases the chances of their accumulation in reservoir intervals sealed by an overthrusting orogen. This is a positive premise in the context of petroleum exploration in the area.

scholarly journals Plio-Quaternary tectonic evolution of the southern margin of the Alboran Basin (Western Mediterranean)

Solid Earth ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 741-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Lafosse ◽  
Elia d'Acremont ◽  
Alain Rabaute ◽  
Ferran Estrada ◽  
Martin Jollivet-Castelot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Long Term Evolution ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Term Evolution ◽  
Southern Margin ◽  
Constant Direction ◽  
Alboran Basin

Abstract. Progress in the understanding and dating of the sedimentary record of the Alboran Basin allows us to propose a model of its tectonic evolution since the Pliocene. After a period of extension, the Alboran Basin underwent a progressive tectonic inversion starting around 9–7.5 Ma. The Alboran Ridge is a NE–SW transpressive structure accommodating the shortening in the basin. We mapped its southwestern termination, a Pliocene rhombic structure exhibiting series of folds and thrusts. The active Al-Idrissi Fault zone (AIF) is a Pleistocene strike-slip structure trending NNE–SSW. The AIF crosses the Alboran Ridge and connects to the transtensive Nekor Basin and the Nekor Fault to the south. In the Moroccan shelf and at the edge of a submerged volcano we dated the inception of the local subsidence at 1.81–1.12 Ma. The subsidence marks the propagation of the AIF toward the Nekor Basin. Pliocene thrusts and folds and Quaternary transtension appear at first sight to act at different tectonic periods but reflect the long-term evolution of a transpressive system. Despite the constant direction of Africa–Eurasia convergence since 6 Ma, along the southern margin of the Alboran Basin, the Pliocene–Quaternary compression evolves from transpressive to transtensive along the AIF and the Nekor Basin. This system reflects the logical evolution of the deformation of the Alboran Basin under the indentation of the African lithosphere.

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