Extensional tectonics and gravitational collapse in an Ordovician passive margin: The Western Argentine Precordillera
The paper describes ubiquitous extensional structures developed in a passive margin of Ordovician age in the Argentine Precordillera. These extensional structures include normal faults and boudinaged sequences. In some places the boudinage reaches very high extension values, giving rise to block-in-...
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todo:paper_1342937X_v13_n2_p204_Alonso2023-10-03T16:09:32Z Extensional tectonics and gravitational collapse in an Ordovician passive margin: The Western Argentine Precordillera Alonso, J.L. Gallastegui, J. García-Sansegundo, J. Farias, P. Fernández, L.R.R. Ramos, V.A. Argentine Precordillera Extensional tectonics Gondwana Ordovician Submarine sliding The paper describes ubiquitous extensional structures developed in a passive margin of Ordovician age in the Argentine Precordillera. These extensional structures include normal faults and boudinaged sequences. In some places the boudinage reaches very high extension values, giving rise to block-in-matrix formations. Most of these extensional structures developed when sediments were not well lithified, as recorded by hydroplastic fractures, slump folds and pinch-and-swell structures. The presence of slump folds coeval with the extensional deformation, the variable extension directions obtained from the kinematic analysis and a weak cleavage recording layer-perpendicular shortening support the interpretation that gravitational collapse related to submarine sliding was the cause for extensional deformation. Well-consolidated rocks, located at the lower part of the stratigraphic sequence, also display scarce extensional faults. These extensional faults predate folding because they were breached by flexural-slip faults and, as a result of their passive rotation in fold limbs, these initial normal faults may now appear as reverse faults, particularly in steep and overturned limbs. The truncation of extensional faults by flexural-slip faults produces typical bed thickness changes across the extensional faults, giving rise to apparent synsedimentary faults. These normal faults can be attributed to the crustal extension that generated the passive continental margin or may represent deep parts of faults related to gravitational collapse. © 2007 International Association for Gondwana Research. Fil:Alonso, J.L. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Ramos, V.A. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_1342937X_v13_n2_p204_Alonso |
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Argentine Precordillera Extensional tectonics Gondwana Ordovician Submarine sliding Alonso, J.L. Gallastegui, J. García-Sansegundo, J. Farias, P. Fernández, L.R.R. Ramos, V.A. Extensional tectonics and gravitational collapse in an Ordovician passive margin: The Western Argentine Precordillera |
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The paper describes ubiquitous extensional structures developed in a passive margin of Ordovician age in the Argentine Precordillera. These extensional structures include normal faults and boudinaged sequences. In some places the boudinage reaches very high extension values, giving rise to block-in-matrix formations. Most of these extensional structures developed when sediments were not well lithified, as recorded by hydroplastic fractures, slump folds and pinch-and-swell structures. The presence of slump folds coeval with the extensional deformation, the variable extension directions obtained from the kinematic analysis and a weak cleavage recording layer-perpendicular shortening support the interpretation that gravitational collapse related to submarine sliding was the cause for extensional deformation. Well-consolidated rocks, located at the lower part of the stratigraphic sequence, also display scarce extensional faults. These extensional faults predate folding because they were breached by flexural-slip faults and, as a result of their passive rotation in fold limbs, these initial normal faults may now appear as reverse faults, particularly in steep and overturned limbs. The truncation of extensional faults by flexural-slip faults produces typical bed thickness changes across the extensional faults, giving rise to apparent synsedimentary faults. These normal faults can be attributed to the crustal extension that generated the passive continental margin or may represent deep parts of faults related to gravitational collapse. © 2007 International Association for Gondwana Research. |
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Alonso, J.L. Gallastegui, J. García-Sansegundo, J. Farias, P. Fernández, L.R.R. Ramos, V.A. |
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Alonso, J.L. Gallastegui, J. García-Sansegundo, J. Farias, P. Fernández, L.R.R. Ramos, V.A. |
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Extensional tectonics and gravitational collapse in an Ordovician passive margin: The Western Argentine Precordillera |
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Extensional tectonics and gravitational collapse in an Ordovician passive margin: The Western Argentine Precordillera |
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Extensional tectonics and gravitational collapse in an Ordovician passive margin: The Western Argentine Precordillera |
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Extensional tectonics and gravitational collapse in an Ordovician passive margin: The Western Argentine Precordillera |
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Extensional tectonics and gravitational collapse in an Ordovician passive margin: The Western Argentine Precordillera |
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extensional tectonics and gravitational collapse in an ordovician passive margin: the western argentine precordillera |
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