Growth of the South Pyrenean orogenic wedge

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 239-258

  Meigs, Andrew J ^a   Burbank, Douglas W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOLLEMENT; DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; OROGENESIS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

SPAIN, PYRENEES;

EID: 0030867952     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC03641     Document Type: Article

References (81)

1. Aoadón, P., L. Cabrera, F. Colombo, M. Marzo, and O. Riba, Syntectonic intraformational unconformities in alluvial fan deposits, eastern Ebro Basin margins (NE Spain), in Foreland Basins, edited by P. A. Allen and P. Homewood, pp. 259-271, Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, 1986.
2. Beaumont, C., P. I. J. Kamp, I. Hamilton, and P. Fullsack, The continental collision zone, South Island, New Zealand: Comparison of geodynamical models and observations, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 3333-3359, 1996.
3. Bombolakis, E. G., Applicability of criticalwedge theories to foreland belts, Geology, 22, 535-538, 1994.
4. Boyer, S. E., Geometric evidence for synchronous thrusting in the southern Alberta and northwest Montana thrust belts, in Thrust Tectonics, edited by K. R. McClay, pp. 377-390, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992.
5. Boyer, S. E., and P. A. Geiser, Sequential development of thrust belts: implications for mechanics and cross section balancing, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Progs., 19, pp. 597, 1987.
6. Burbank, D. W., and R. A. Beck, Early Pliocene uplift of the Salt Range: Temporal constraints on thrust wedge development, northwest Himalaya, Pakistan, Spec. Pap. Geol. Soc. Am., 232, 113-128, 1989.
7. Burbank, D. W., and R. A. Beck, Models of aggradation versus progradation in the Himalayan Foreland, Geol. Rundsch., 80, 623-638, 1991.
8. Burbank, D. W., and R. A. Beck, Rapid, longterm rates of denudation, Geology, 19, 1109-1172, 1991.
9. Burbank, D. W., and J. Vergés, Reconstruction of topography and related depositional systems during active thrusting, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 20,281-20,297, 1994.
10. Burbank, D. W., C. Puigdefàbregas, and J. A. Mufioz, The chronology of Eocene tectonics and stratigraphic development of the eastern Pyrenean foreland basin, northeast Spain, GeoL Soc. Am. Bull., 104, 1101-1120, 1992a.
11. Burbank, D. W., J. Vergés, J. A. Muñoz, and P. Bentham, Coeval hindward- and forewardimbricating thrusting in the south-central Pyrenees, Spain: Timing and rates of shortening and deposition, GeoL Soc. Am. Bull., 104, 3-17, 1992b.
12. Burbank, D.W., A. J. Meigs, and N. Brozovic, Interactions of growing folds and coeval depositional systems. Basin Res., 8, 199-223, 1996.
13. Byrne, D. E., W.-H. Wang, and D. M. Davis, Mechanical role of backstops in the growth of forearcs, Tectonics, 12, 123-144, 1993.
14. Byrne, T., and J. Hibbard, Landward vergence in accretionary prisms: The role of the backstop and thermal history, Geology, 15, 1163-1167, 1987.
15. Cande, S. C., and D. V. Kent, A new geomagnetic polarity time scale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 13917-13951, 1992.
16. Chapple, W. M., Mechanics of thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belts, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 89, 1189-1198, 1978.
17. Choukroune, P., and M. Seguret, Tectonics of the Pyrenees: Role of compression and gravity, in Gravity and Tectonics, edited by K. De Jong and R. Scholten, pp. 141-156, John Wiley, New York, 1973.
18. Choukroune, P., and ECORS Team, The ECORS Pyrenean deep seismic profile reflection data and the overall structure of an orogenic belt, Tectonics, 8, 23-29, 1989.
19. Colletta, B., J. Letouzey, R. Pinedo, J. F. Ballard, and P. Bale, Computerized X-ray tomography analysis of sandbox models: Examples of thin-skinned thrust systems, Geology, 19, 1063-1067, 1991.
20. Coogan, J. C., Structural evolution of piggyback basins in the Wyoming-Idaho-Utah thrust belt, Mem. Geol. Soc. Am., 179, 55-81, 1992.
21. Currie, J. B., H. W. Patnode, and R. P. Trump, Development of folds in sedimentary strata, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 73, 655-674, 1962.
22. Dahlen, F. A., Critical taper model of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges, Anna. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 18, 55-99, 1990.
23. Dahlen, F. A., and J. Suppe, Mechanics, growth, and erosion of mountain belts, Spec. Pap. Geol. Soc. Am., 218, 161-178, 1988.
24. Davis, D. M., and T. Engelder, The role of salt in fold-and-thrust belts, Tectonophysics, 119, 67-89, 1985.
25. Davis, D. M., and R. J. Lillie, Changing mechanical response during continental collision: Active examples from the foreland thrust belts of Pakistan, J. Struct. Geol., 16, 21-34, 1994.
26. Davis, D. M., J. Suppe, and F. A. Dahlen, Mechanics of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 1153-1172, 1983.
27. DeCelles, P. G., Late Cretaceous-Paleocene synorogenic sedimentation and kinematic history of the Sevier thrust belt, northeast Utah and southwest Wyoming, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 106, 32-56, 1994.
28. DeCelles, P. G., and G. Mitra, History of the Sevier orogenic wedge in terms of critical taper models, northeast Utah and southwest Wyoming, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 4, 454-462, 1995.
29. DeCelles, P. G., M. B. Gray, K. D. Ridgway, R. B. Cole, P. Srivastava, N. Pequera, and D. Pivnik, D. A., Kinematic history of a foreland uplift from Paleocene synorogenic conglomerate, Beartooth Range, Wyoming and Montana. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 103, 1458-1475, 1991.
30. DeCelles, P. G., H. T. Pile, and J. C. Coogan, Kinematic history of the Meade thrust based on provenance of the Bechler conglomerate at Red Mountain, Idaho, Sevier thrust belt, Tectonics, 12, 1436-1450, 1993.
31. Dixon, J. M., and S. Liu, Centrifuge modelling of the propagation of thrust faults, in Thrust Tectonics, edited by K. R. McClay, pp. 53-70, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992.
32. Dixon, J. M., and R. Tirrul, Centrifuge modelling of fold-thrust structures in a tripartite stratigraphic succession, J. Struct. Geol., 13, 3-20, 1991.
33. Farrell, S. G., G. D. Williams, and C. D. Atkinson, Constraints on the age of movement of the Montsech and Cotiella Thrusts, south central Pyrenees, Spain, J. Geol. Soc. London, 144, 907-914, 1987.
34. Geiser, P. A., The role of kinematics in the construction and analysis of geological cross sections in deformed terranes, Spec. Pap. Geol. Soc. Am., 222, 47-76, 1988.
35. Geiser, P. A., and S. E. Boyer, The paradox of the orogenic wedge and a model for crustal recycling, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Programs, 19, 674, 1987.
36. Hogan, P. J., Geochronologic, tectonic, and stratigraphie evolution of the southwest Pyrenean foreland basin, northern Spain, Ph.D. thesis, 219 pp., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1993.
37. Jaumë, S. C, and R. J. Lillie, Mechanics of the Salt Range-Potwar Plateau, Pakistan: A fold-and-thrust belt underlain by evaporites, Tectonics, 7, 57-71, 1988.
38. Lawton, T. F., S. E. Boyer, and J. G. Schmitt, Influence of inherited taper on structural variability and conglomerate distribution, Cordilleran fold and thrust belt, western United States, Geology, 22, 339-342, 1994.
39. Liu, S., and J. M. Dixon, Centrifuge modelling of thrust faulting: Structural variation along strike in fold-thrust belts, Tectonophysics, 188, 39-62, 1991.
40. Losantos, M. E., Aragonès, X. Berästegui, and C. Puigdefàbregas, Mapa Geologic de Catalunya, 1:250,00 scale, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 1989.
41. Lucas, S. B., Structural evolution of the Cape Smith thrust belt and the role of out-of-sequence faulting in the thickening of mountain belts, Tectonics, 8, 655-676, 1989.
42. Martínez, A., J. Vergés, and J. A. Muñoz, Sequencias de propagación del sistema de cabalgamientos de la terminación del manto del Pedraforca y relación con los conglomerados sinorogénicos, Acta Geol. Hisp., 23, 119-128, 1988.
43. Martinez Peña, M. B. and Pocoví, A., El amortiguamiento frontal de la estructura de la cobertera surpirenaica y su relacion con el anticlinal Barbastro-Balaguer, Acta Geol. Hisp., 23, 81-94, 1988.
44. Meigs, A. J., Sequential development of selected Pyrenean thrust faults, J. Struct. Geol., in press 1997.
45. Meigs, A. J. and Burbank, D. W., Thrust sheets as a proxy for whole orogens: Testing the critical taper wedge model with an example from the Spanish Pyrenees, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Programs, 25, A-230, 1993.
46. Meigs, A. J., J. Vergés, and D. W. Burbank, Ten-million-year history of a thrust sheet, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 12, 1608-1625, 1996.
47. Mellere, D., I Conglomerati di Pobla de Segur: Stratigrafia Fisica e Relazioni Tettonica-Sedimentazione, Ph.D. thesis., 203 pp., Univ. of Padova, Padova, Italy, 1992.
48. Mellere, D., Thrust-generated, back-fill stacking of alluvial fan sequences, southcentral Pyrenees, Spain (La Pobla de Segur Conglomerates), in Tectonic Controls and Signatures in Sedimentary Successions, edited by L. E. Frostick and R. J. Steel, pp. 259-276, Blackwell Sci., Cambridge, Mass., 1993.
49. Misch, P., Der Bau der Mittleren Sudpyrenäen, Abh. Geselsch. Göttingen Math. Phys. Kl.13, 1597-1764, 1934.
50. Morley, C. K., Out-of-sequence thrusts, Tectonics, 7, 539-561, 1988.
51. Mulugeta, G., Modelling the geometry of Coulomb thrust wedges, J. Struct. Geol., 10, 847-859, 1988.
52. Mulugeta, G. and H. Koyi, Three-dimensional geometry and kinematics of experimental piggyback thrusting, Geology, 15, 1052-1056, 1987.
53. Muñoz, J. A., Evolution of a continental collision belt: ECORS-Pyrenees crustal balanced section, in Thrust Tectonics, edited by K.R. McClay, pp. 235-246, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992.
54. Mutti, E., J. Rosell, G. P., Allen, F. Fonnesu, and M. Sgavetti, The Eocene Baronia tide dominated delta-shelf system in the Ager Basin, in IAS 6th Regional Meeting Excursion Guidebook, edited by M. D. Mila and J. Rosell, pp. 579-600, Intl. Assoc. Sediment., Lerida, Spain, 1985.
55. Mutti, E., M. Seguret, and M. Sgavetti, Sedimentation and deformation in the Tertiary sequences of the southern Pyrenees, in American Association of Petroleum Geologists Mediterranean Basins Conference Field Trip Guide, 1-153, Nice, France, 1988.
56. Ori, G. G., and P. F. Friend, Sedimentary basins formed and carried piggyback on tive thrust sheets, Geology, 12, 475-478, 1984.
57. Platt, J. P., Dynamics of orogenic wedges and the uplift of high-pressure metamorphic rocks, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 97, 1037-1053, 1986.
58. Pocoví, J., Estudio geologico de las Sierras Marginales Catalanas (Prepirineo de Lerida), Ph.D. thesis, 218 pp., Univ. of Barcelona, Barcelona, 1978a.
59. Pocoví, J., Estudio geologico de las Sierras Marginales Catalanas (Prepirineo de Lerida), Acta Geol. Hisp., 13, 73-79, 1978b.
60. Price, R. A., The mechanical paradox of large overthrusts, Geol Soc. Am. Bull., 100, 1898-1908, 1988.
61. Puigdefàbregas, C., J. A. Muñoz, and J. Vergés, Thrusting and foreland basin evolution in the Southern Pyrenees, in Thrust Tectonics, edited by K. R. McClay, pp. 247-254, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992.
62. Riba, O., Syntectonic unconformities of the Alto Cardener, Spanish Pyrenees: A genetic interpretation, Sediment. Geol., 15, 213-233, 1976.
63. Roure, F., P. Choukroune, X. Berastegui, J. A. Muñoz, A. Villien, P. Matheron, M. Bareyt, M. Seguret, P. Camara, and J. Deramond, ECORS deep seismic data and balanced cross sections: Geometric constraints on the evolution of the Pyrenees, Tectonics, 8, 41-50, 1989.
64. Royden, L., and B. C. Burchfiel, Are systematic variations in thrust belt style related to plate boundary processes? (The western Alps versus the Carpathians), Tectonics, 8, 51-61, 1989.
65. Sáez, A., J. Vergés, J. J. Pueyo, J. A. Muñoz, and P. Burquets, Eventos evaporíticos paleógeneos en la cuenca de antepaís surpirenaica: Causas climáticas- causus tectonicas?, in Libro-Guía Excursion 5 Il Congreso del Grupo Español del Terciaro, edited by F. Colombo, pp. 85, Vic, Spain, 1991.
66. Senz, J.G. and M. Zamorano, Evolución tectónica y sedimentaria durante el Priaboniense superior-Mioceno inferior, en el frente de cabalgamientos de las Sierras Marginales occidentales, Acta Geol. Hisp., 27, 195-209, 1992.
67. Simó, A, and C. Puigdefàbregas, Transition from shelf to basin on an active slope, upper Cretaceous, Tremp area, southern Pyrenees, in 6th European Regional Meeting Excursion Guide-book, pp. 63-108, Intl. Assoc. of Sediment., Lleida, Spain, 1985.
68. Stockmal, G. S., Modeling of large-scale accretionary wedge deformation, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 8271-8287, 1983.
69. Sudre, J., et al., La biochronologie mammalienne du paléogène au Nord et au Sud des Pyrénées: Etat de la question, C. R. Acad. Sci. Sèr. II, 314, 631-636, 1992.
70. Talling, P. J., T. F. Lawton, D. W. Burbank, and R. S. Hobbs, Evolution of latest Cretaceous-Eocene nonmarine deposystems in the Axhandle piggyback basin of central Utah, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 107, 297-315 1995.
71. Teixell, A., Estructura alpina en la transversal de la terminacion occidental de la Zona Axial Pirenaica, Ph.D. thesis, 252 pp., Univ. de Barcelona, Barcelona, 1992.
72. Vergés, J., Estudi tectònic del vessant sud del Pirineu oriental i central: Evolució cinemàtica en 3D, Ph.D. Thesis, 203 pp. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 1993.
73. Vergés, J., and J. A. Muñoz, Thrust sequencea in the southern central Pyrenees, Bull. Soc. GeoL Fr., 8, 399-405, 1990.
74. Vergés, J., J. A. Mufioz, and A. Martínez, South Pyrenean fold-and-thrust belt: Role of foreland evaporitic levels in thrust geometry, in Thrust Tectonics, edited by K. R. McClay, pp. 255-264, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992.
75. Vergés, J., H. Milán, E. Roca, J. A. Muñoz, M. Marzo, J. Cirés, T. den Bezemer, R. Zoetemeijer, and S. Cloetingh, Eastern Pyrenees and related foreland basins: pre-, syn-, and post-collisional crustal-scale cross-sections, Mar. Pet. Geol., 12, 903-915, 1995.
76. Vergés, J., D. W. Burbank, and A. J. Meigs, Unfolding: An inverse approach to fold kinematics, Geology, 24, 175-178, 1996.
77. Willett, S. D., Dynamic and kinematic growth and change of a Coulomb wedge, in Thrusi Tectonics, edited by K. R. McClay, pp. 19-32, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992.
78. Willett, S., C. Beaumont, and P. Fullsack, Mechanical models for the tectonics of doubly vergent compressional orogens, Geology, 21, 371-374, 1993.
79. Williams, G. D., Thrust tectonics in the south central Pyrenees, J. Struct. Geol., 7, 11-17, 1985.
80. Williams, G. D., and M. W. Fischer, A balanced cross-section across the Pyrenean orogenic belt, Tectonics, 3, 773-780, 1984.
81. Woodward, N. B., Geological applicability of critical-wedge thrust-belt models, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 99, 827-832, 1987.