A kinematic model for folds accommodating shortening in tips of reverse faults:an example from the southern Pyrenees (N Iberian Peninsula) .

  1. Uzkeda Apesteguia, Hodei 1
  2. Poblet Esplugas, Josep 1
  3. Bulnes Cudeiro, Maite 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
    info

    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Journal:
Trabajos de geología

ISSN: 0474-9588

Year of publication: 2010

Issue: 30

Pages: 296-302

Type: Article

DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

More publications in: Trabajos de geología

Abstract

A kinematic model for fault-related folds is proposed based on a field example from thePyrenees. A brief explanation of the model with remarks on its properties and why it was chosen tosimulate the natural structure is given together with a detailed structural analysis. The structure consistsof a meter-scale fold developed at the tip of a thrust fault with its backlimb dipping less than thefault surface and including a footwall fold. The suggested model presents an acceptable geometrical fittingto the studied structure and provides a reasonable evolutionary history for the fold. Graphs ofshortening vs. slip along the fault can be obtained using the model’s equations in which a possiblestructural path followed by the structure can be depicted.

Bibliographic References

  • CARBAYO, A., DEL VALLE, J., LEÓN, L. and VILLALOBOS, L. (1978): Mapa Geológico de España escala 1:50 000, Hoja 116 (Garralda). IGME.
  • CHAMBERLIN, R. T. (1910): The Appalachian folds of central Pennsylvania. J. Geol., 18, 3: 228-251.
  • EPARD, J. L. and GROSHONG, R. H. (1993): Excess area and depth to detachment. AAPG Bull., 77, 8: 1291-1302.
  • GARCÍA, A. and MARTÍNEZ, L. M. (1994): Mapa geológico de Navarra escala 1:25 000 Hoja 116-I (Erro). Nafarroako Foru Aldundia.
  • MCCONNELL, D. A., KATTENHORN, S. A. and BENNER, L. M. (1997): Distribution of fault slip in outcrop-scale fault-related folds, Appalachian Mountains. J. Struct. Geol., 19, 3-4: 257-267.
  • MUÑOZ, J. A. (1992): Evolution of a continental collision beltECORS-Pyrenees crustal balanced cross-section. In: K. R. MCCLAY (ed): Thrust tectonics, Chapman and Hall, London: 235- 246.
  • RAMSAY, J. G. (1967): Folding and fracturing of rocks. Mc GrawHill, New York, 568 pp.
  • SEGURET, M. (1972): Etude tectonique des nappes et series decollees de la partie centrale du versant sud des Pyrenees; caractere synsedimentaire, role de la compression et de la gravite. Montpellier: USTELA, 155 pp.
  • SUPPE, J. and MEDWEDEFF, D. A. (1990): Geometry and kinematics of fault-propagation folding. Eclogae Geol. Helv., 83, 3: 409- 454.
  • TAVANI, S., STORTI, F. and SALVINI, F. (2006): Double-edge propagation folding: geometry and kinematics. J. Struct. Geol., 28, 1: 19-35.
  • XU, X., AIKEN, C. L. V., BHATTACHARYA, J. P., CORBEANU, R. M., KENT, C., MCMECHAN, G. A. and ABDELSALAM, M. G. (2000): Creating virtual 3-D outcrop. The Leading Edge, 19, 2: 197-202.
  • XU, X., BHATTACHARYA, J. P., DAVIES, R. K. and AIKEN, C. L. V. (2001): Digital geologic mapping of the Ferron Sandstone, Muddy Creek, Utah, with GPS and reflectorless rangefinder. GPS Solutions, 19, 1: 15-23.
Data source: Dialnet