K-Ar fault gouge dating of Neogene thrusting: The case of the siliciclastic deposits of the Trasimeno Tectonic Wedge (Northern Apennines, Italy)

2020 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-308
Author(s):  
Filippo Carboni ◽  
Giulio Viola ◽  
Luca Aldega ◽  
Roelant Van Der Lelij ◽  
Francesco Brozzetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Gouge ◽  
Northern Apennines ◽  
Fault Gouge Dating

scholarly journals Exhumation and uplift of the Sierras Pampeanas: preliminary implications from K–Ar fault gouge dating and low-T thermochronology in the Sierra de Comechingones (Argentina)

2010 ◽  
Vol 100 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 671-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Löbens ◽  
Frithjof A. Bense ◽  
Klaus Wemmer ◽  
István Dunkl ◽  
Carlos H. Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Gouge ◽  
Sierras Pampeanas ◽  
Fault Gouge Dating

Fault gouge dating in the Southern Appalachians, USA

2014 ◽  
Vol 126 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 639-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. Hnat ◽  
Ben A. van der Pluijm
Keyword(s):  
Fault Gouge ◽  
Southern Appalachians ◽  
Fault Gouge Dating

Detachment faulting in a bivergent core complex constrained by fault gouge dating and low-temperature thermochronology

2019 ◽  
Vol 127 ◽  
pp. 103865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Heineke ◽  
Ralf Hetzel ◽  
Nils-Peter Nilius ◽  
Horst Zwingmann ◽  
Andrew Todd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Fault Gouge ◽  
Core Complex ◽  
Fault Gouge Dating ◽  
Detachment Faulting

scholarly journals Post-Caledonian brittle deformation in the Bergen area, West Norway: results from K–Ar illite fault gouge dating

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna K. Ksienzyk ◽  
Klaus Wemmer ◽  
Joachim Jacobs ◽  
Haakon Fossen ◽  
Anna C. Schomberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Gouge ◽  
Brittle Deformation ◽  
Fault Gouge Dating

Fault-gouge dating in the Southern Alps, New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 717 ◽  
pp. 321-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Ring ◽  
I. Tonguc Uysal ◽  
Johannes Glodny ◽  
Simon C. Cox ◽  
Tim Little ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Southern Alps ◽  
Fault Gouge ◽  
Fault Gouge Dating

Hematite (U-Th)/He constraints on Plio-Pleistocene deformation and hydrothermalism in the eastern Island of Elba, northern Apennines (Italy)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio Viola ◽  
Alexis Derycke ◽  
Cécile Gautheron ◽  
Francesco Mazzarini ◽  
Giovanni Musumeci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Slip Surface ◽  
Normal Fault ◽  
Fault Gouge ◽  
Northern Apennines ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Tyrrhenian Sea ◽  
Constrained Deformation

<p>The northern Tyrrhenian Sea and the inner northern Apennines (NA) are classically regarded as a late Miocene–Pleistocene back-arc system characterized by crustal extension and acidic magmatism coeval with shortening farther east at the front of the belt. The orogenic prism of the NA, which is well exposed in the easternmost Island of Elba, formed by eastward thrusting, stacking and folding of oceanic and continental units from the Eocene down to the late Miocene. Eastern Elba hosts the historically and economically most important Fe district of Italy, which, in the study area, consists of sulphide- and Fe-rich veins and breccias, in addition to minor massive Fe ore bodies of hydrothermal origin emplaced in actively deforming upper crustal conditions (Mazzarini et al., JSG, 2019). The Zuccale fault (ZF) on Elba is generally interpreted as a major normal fault, which would have greatly facilitated regional E-W extension during the late Miocene. It is an east-dipping low angle fault that displaces the nappe pile by up to 6 km. The fault architecture is complex, although it can be approximated by an exclusively brittle, flat-lying component dated to < c. 5 Ma by K-Ar on illite from fault gouge that cuts through steeper, brittle-ductile and earlier top-to-the E thrust related fabrics (Viola et al., Tectonics, 2018).</p><p>Aiming at directly constraining the syn- to post Pliocene evolution of the ZF and the age of the hydrothermal Fe deposits of the historic mining district, we performed hematite (U-Th)/He dating of the low-angle, hematite-decorated principal slip surface of the ZF at the famous Terra Nera section. Hematite samples examined in this study comprise platelet-shaped crystals (specularite), fine aggregates coating fault slip surfaces, massive veins, the fine matrix of breccias, and euhedral millimetric crystals from low strain domains. Ages from the ZF striated fault plane span the ~4.2±0.4 to 3.6±0.4 Ma time interval, fully consistent with available fault gouge illite K-Ar dates. Later NNE-SSW strike-slip faulting, associated with centimetric specularite veins, is constrained to between 2.1±0.2 and 1.7±0.2 Ma, roughly coeval with transient and local reactivation of the ZF as indicated by 1.9±0.2-1.5±0.2 Ma old euhedral, millimetric hematite infilling dilational jogs within the foliated ZF fault zone. Farther north, in the Rio Albano area, mineralised hematite breccias genetically associated with top-to-the E spectacular extensional faults are dated to between 1.6±0.2 and 0.9±0.1 Ma and postdate older ~2.7-2.6 Ma quartz-hematite veins associated with a discrete phase of top-to-the W shearing.</p><p>All obtained dates fit our independently built structural model of the investigated area, where clear crosscutting relationships and structural/metamorphic considerations have permitted establishing a sequence of kinematically constrained deformation events. For the first time we have defined the exact timing of deformation in the study area, contributing to the unravelling of the local, long and complex tectonic and mineralization history and to a better constrained regional picture.</p>

The geological structure of the Emilia-Tuscany Northern Apennines and Alpi Apuane

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2.5) ◽  
pp. 1-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Conti ◽  
Gianluca Cornamusini ◽  
Luigi Carmignani ◽  
Giancarlo Molli
Keyword(s):  
Geological Structure ◽  
Northern Apennines
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