Stratigraphic Evolution of Latest Cretaceous to Early Tertiary Difunta Foreland Basin in Northeast MexicoInfluence of Salt Withdrawal on Tectonically Induced Subsidence by the Sierra Madre Oriental Fold and Thrust Belt

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Soegaard ◽  
Hongzhuan Ye ◽  
Nanang Halik ◽  
Angela T. Daniels ◽  
John Arney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Sierra Madre Oriental ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Sierra Madre ◽  
Stratigraphic Evolution

scholarly journals Structural analysis of two juxtaposed Jurassic lithostratigraphic assemblages in the Sierra Madre Oriental fold and thrust belt of central Mexico

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 1007-1028
Author(s):  
M. Carrillo-Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Central Mexico ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Sierra Madre Occidental ◽  
Sierra Madre Oriental ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Sierra Madre ◽  
Cretácico Inferior

Una comparación general de tres áreas vecinas en la Sierra Madre Occidental en el cetro de México sugiere la existencia de una corteza continental mesozoica bordeada por una zona de subducción. Al oriente de la Cabalgadura de Higuerillas afloran 2400-3500 m de espesor de depósitos marinos compuestos de (1) calizas arcillosas y lutitas depositadas durante el Jurásico Superios-Neocomiano;(2) calizas de la parte superior del Cretácico Inferior y (3) rocas pelíticas del Cretacico Superior. Al oeste de la Cabalgadura de Higuerillas, dos conjuntos litotectónicos se encuentran yuxtapuestos: el más occidental contiene en su parte inferior intercalaciones de grauvaca micácea de grano fino con lutita filitzada, rocas voclano-sedimentarias y pedernales con radiolarios, relacionadas con un arco magmático. La edad de estas litologías puede pertenecer al Jurásico Medio o al Jurásico Superior. Sobre estas rocas descansan, separadas por una dicordia angular, conglomerado, caliza marina de batimetría moderada, arenisca, lutita y capas rojas de edad neocomiana. El conjunto oriental consiste en brecha, conglomerado, piroclastos de composición ácida y otras rocas siliciclásticas depositadas durante el Kimeridgiano Superior hasta el Titoniano Inferior. Las rocas siliclásticas de grano grueso se depositaron probablemente cuando la anterior plataforma continental Norteamericana se deformó por fallamiento normal de alto ángulo, que estuvo activo aún en el Neocomiano - Barremiano y que pudo ser responsable del profundizamiento de la plataforma donde se depositaron las series litológicas de ese período. Los afloramientos jurasicos situados más al oeste de la Cabalgadura de Higuerillas incluyen grauvaca, toba y pedernales con radiolarios, fracturados y desgarrados in situ en una matriz arcillosa y que exhiben con frecuencia un crucero penetrativo que se inclina de a 40° hacia el SW. Este tipo de deformación esta casi ausente en las rocas siliciclásticas de grano grueso situadas al oriente. El límite entre estos dos conjuntos litotectónicos está definido por el lineamiento que aquí se domina El Frontón, como una zona de lentes de cizallamientos por fallamiento inverso imbricado.

scholarly journals Sandstone Petrology and Provenance in Fold Thrust Belt and Foreland Basin System

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore Critelli ◽  
Sara Criniti
Keyword(s):  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Continental Block ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Geodynamic Processes ◽  
Dual Plate ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sandstone Composition ◽  
Main Producer

The sandstone composition of foreland basin has a wide range of provenance signatures, reflecting the interplay between flexed underplate region and abrupt growth of the accreted upper plate region. The combination of contrasting detrital signatures reflects these dual plate interactions; indeed, several cases figure out that the earliest history of older foreland basin infilling is marked by quartz-rich sandstones, with cratonal or continental-block provenance of the flexed underplate flanks. As upper plate margin grows over the underplate, the nascent fold-and-thrust belt starts to be the main producer of grain particles, reflecting the space/time dependent progressive unroofing of the subjacent orogenic source terranes. The latter geodynamic processes are mainly reflected in the nature of sandstone compositions that become more lithic fragment-rich and feldspar-rich as the fold-thrust belt involves the progressive deepest portions of upper plate crustal terranes. In this context sandstone signatures reflect quartzolithic to quartzofeldspathic compositions.

Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of salt-controlled minibasins in a fold and thrust belt, the Oligo-Miocene central Sivas Basin

2017 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 75-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie Kergaravat ◽  
Charlotte Ribes ◽  
Jean-Paul Callot ◽  
Jean-Claude Ringenbach
Keyword(s):  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Sivas Basin ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Stratigraphic Evolution

Structure of the Gare Kakheti foothills using seismic reflection profiles: implications for kinematic evolution of the Georgian part of Kura foreland fold-and-thrust belt

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Razmadze
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Structural Evolution ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Fault Propagation ◽  
Seismic Reflection Data ◽  
Growth Strata ◽  
Kinematic Evolution ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

<p>Gare Kakheti foothills are located between Lesser Caucasus and Kakheti Ridge and are mainly represented by the series of NEN dipping thrust faults, most of which are associated with fault‐related folds. Gare Kakheti foothills as a part of the Kura foreland fold-and-thrust belt developed formerly as a foreland basin (Oligocene-Lower Miocene) (e.g. Alania et al., 2017). Neogene shallow marine and continental sediments in the Gare Kakheti foothills keep the record on the stratigraphy and structural evolution of the study area during the compressive deformation. Interpreted seismic profiles and structural cross-sections across the Udabno, Tsitsmatiani, and Berebisseri synclines show that they are thrust-top basins. Seismic reflection data reveal the presence of growth fault-propagation folds and some structural wedges (or duplex). The evolution of the Udabno, Tsitsmatiani, and Berebisseri basins is compared with simple models of thrust-top basins whose development is controlled by the kinematics of competing for growth anticlines. Growth anticlines are mainly represented by fault-propagation folds. The geometry of growth strata in associated footwall synclines and the sedimentary infill of thrust-top basins provide information on the thrusting activity in terms of location, geometry, and age.<br>This work was supported by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (SRNSF - #PHDF-19-268).</p><p> </p>

Syn-folding remagnetization events in the French-Belgium Variscan thrust front as markers of the fold-and-thrust belt kinematics

2003 ◽  
Vol 174 (5) ◽  
pp. 511-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafal Szaniawski ◽  
Marek Lewandowski ◽  
Jean-Louis Mansy ◽  
Olivier Averbuch ◽  
Frederic Lacquement
Keyword(s):  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Natural Remanent Magnetization ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
High Temperature Component ◽  
Set Constraints ◽  
Thrust Front ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Temperature Component ◽  
Major Strike

Abstract New paleomagnetic studies have been carried out within the Ardennes segment of the N France - S Belgium Variscan fold-and-thrust belt to set constraints on the fold-thrust belt kinematics and reveal the casual relationships between vertical-axis rotations and major strike deviated zones localised along the general trend of the belt. Magnetite-bearing Devonian and Carboniferous limestones yielded two characteristic, secondary components of the natural remanent magnetization : a low temperature component recorded most probably during the late stages of folding and a high temperature component, acquired during incipient stages of deformation. Both post- and synfolding magnetizations were identified in the Lower Devonian hematite bearing sandstones. Ages of magnetization, inferred from the analysis of characteristic remanence inclinations compared to the reference curves for the stable parts of the Old Red Sandstones Continent (ORC), suggest the previous remagnetization event to be due to the burial of sedimentary rocks under the thick molassic foreland basin of Namurian-Westphalian age and the second to the final out-of-sequence activation of the thrust front in Stephanian times. Irrespective of the age of the magnetizations, orientations of paleomagnetic directions are dominantly governed by second-order structural trends. Clockwise rotations are observed in relatively narrow zones featuring deviated orientations of fold axes, other sites show paleomagnetic directions akin to those known from the ORC. We interpret this feature as a result of local transpressive deformations and related rotations, which occurred at lateral borders of propagating thrust-sheets. The latter deformation zones are suggested to be controlled by deep-seated discontinuities inherited from the Devonian Rheno-hercynian basin development. The Ardennes thrust belt was thus not rotated as a whole unit with respect to the ORC after the Namurian, preserving the initial orientation of the continental margin.

Kinematic evolution of the Patagonian retroarc fold-and-thrust belt and Magallanes foreland basin, Chile and Argentina, 51 30'S

2011 ◽  
Vol 123 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1679-1698 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Fosdick ◽  
B. W. Romans ◽  
A. Fildani ◽  
A. Bernhardt ◽  
M. Calderon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Kinematic Evolution ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

scholarly journals Control of increased sedimentation on orogenic fold-and-thrust belt structure – insights into the evolution of the Western Alps

Solid Earth ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Erdős ◽  
Ritske S. Huismans ◽  
Peter van der Beek
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentation Rate ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Front Propagation ◽  
Western Alps ◽  
European Alps ◽  
Sudden Increase ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Foreland Basins ◽  
Thrust Front ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

Abstract. We use two-dimensional thermomechanical models to investigate the potential role of rapid filling of foreland basins in the development of orogenic foreland fold-and-thrust belts. We focus on the extensively studied example of the Western European Alps, where a sudden increase in foreland sedimentation rate during the mid-Oligocene is well documented. Our model results indicate that such an increase in sedimentation rate will temporarily disrupt the formation of an otherwise regular, outward-propagating basement thrust-sheet sequence. The frontal basement thrust active at the time of a sudden increase in sedimentation rate remains active for a longer time and accommodates more shortening than the previous thrusts. As the propagation of deformation into the foreland fold-and-thrust belt is strongly connected to basement deformation, this transient phase appears as a period of slow migration of the distal edge of foreland deformation. The predicted pattern of foreland-basin and basement thrust-front propagation is strikingly similar to that observed in the North Alpine Foreland Basin and provides an explanation for the coeval mid-Oligocene filling of the Swiss Molasse Basin, due to increased sediment input from the Alpine orogen, and a marked decrease in thrust-front propagation rate. We also compare our results to predictions from critical-taper theory, and we conclude that they are broadly consistent even though critical-taper theory cannot be used to predict the timing and location of the formation of new basement thrusts when sedimentation is included. The evolution scenario explored here is common in orogenic foreland basins; hence, our results have broad implications for orogenic belts other than the Western Alps.

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