Factors controlling the Alpine evolution of the central Pyrenees inferred from a comparison of observations and geodynamical models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B4, 2000, Pages 8121-8145

  Beaumont, Christopher ^a   Muñoz, Josep Anton ^b   Hamilton, Juliet ^a   Fullsack, Philippe ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

FRANCE; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 0034629837     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900390     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Baby, P., G. Crouzet, M. Spetch, J. Déramond, M. Bilotte, and E.J. Debroas, Rôlees paléostructures albo-cénomaniennes dans la géométrie des chevauchements frontaux nord-pyrénéens, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sér. II, 306, 307-313, 1988.
2. Batt, G.E., and J. Braun, On the thermo-mechanical evolution of compressional orogens, Geaphys. J. Int., 128, 364-382, 1997.
3. Beaumont, C., and G. Quinlan, A geodynamic framework for interpreting crustal-scale seismic-reflectivity patterns in compressional orogens, Geophys. J. Int., 116, 754-783, 1994.
4. Beaumont, C., P. Fullsack, and J. Hamilton, Styles of crustal deformation in compressional orogens caused by subduction of the underlying lithosphere, Tectonophysics, 232, 119-132, 1994.
5. Beaumont, C., P.J.J. Kamp, J. 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.
6. Berastegui, X., M. Losantos, J.A. Muñoz, and C. Puigdefàbregas, Tall geològic del Pirineu central 1/200.000, 62 pp., Publ. Geol. Catalunya, Inst. Cartogràfíc de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1993.
7. Braun, J., and C. Beaumont, Three dimensional numerical experiments of strain partitioning at oblique plate boundaries: Implications for contrasting tectonic styles in the southern Coast Ranges, California and central South Island, New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 18,059-18,074, 1995.
8. Buis, M.G., and J. Rey, Une évolution sédimentaire de type deltaique: Le passage du Tertiaire marin au Tertiaire continental entre l'Ariège et le Douctouyre (Pyrénées Ariégeoises), Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse, 111, 80-95, 1975.
9. Burbank, D.W., C. Puigdefàbregas, and J.A. Muñoz, The chronology of the Eocene tectonic and stratigraphic development of the eastern Pyrenean Foreland Basin, NE Spain, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 104, 1101-1120, 1992.
10. Casas, J.M., and J. Poblet, Essai de restitution de la déformation dans une zone avec plis et chevauchements: Le synclinal de Llavorsí dans les Pyrénées centrales (Espagne), C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris. 308, 427-433, 1989.
11. Cazes, M., and G. Torreilles, Etude de la Croûte Terrestre par Sismique Profonde: Profil Nord de la France: Structure Hercynienne, 260 pp., Technip, Paris, 1988.
12. Chéry, J., M. Daignières, and J.-P. Vilotte, How to build an asymmetric crustal root such as the Pyrenean one: A thermomechanical model, Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr., 8, 211-218, 1990.
13. Chéry, J., J.-P. Vilotte, and M. Daignières, Thermomechanical evolution of a thinned continental lithosphere under compression: Implications for the Pyrenees, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 4385-4412, 1991.
14. Choukroune, P., Structure et Evolution Tectonique de la Zone Nord Pyreneenne: Analyse de la Deformation Dans une Partie de Chaine à Schistosité Sub-verticale, Mem. Soc. Geol. Fr., LV(127), 116 pp., 1976.
15. Choukroune, P., and ECORS Team, The ECORS Pyrenean deep seismic profile reflection data and the overall structure of an orogenic belt, Tectonics, 8, 23-39, 1989.
16. Choukroune, P., B. Pinet, F. Roure, and M. Cazes, Major Hercynian thrusts along the ECORS Pyrenees and Biscay lines, Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr., 8, 313-320, 1990.
17. Coney, P., J.A. Muñoz, K. McClay, and C. Evenchick, Syntectonic burial and post-tectonic exhumation of the southern Pyrenees foreland fold-thrust belt, J. Geol. Soc. London, 153, 9-16, 1996.
18. Dahlen, F.A., Noncohesive critical Coulomb wedges: An exact solution, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 10,125-10,133, 1984.
19. Daignières, M., B. de Cabissole J. Gallart, A. Hirn, E. Suriñach, and M. Torné, Geophysical constrains on the deep structure along the ECORS Pyrenees line, Tectonics, 8, 1051-1058, 1989.
20. Daignières, M., M. Séguret, M. Spetch, and ECORS Team, The Arzacq-Western Pyrenees ECORS deep seismic profile, Publ. Eur. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Mem., 4, 199-208, 1994.
21. Debroas, E-J., Le flysch noir albo-cénomanien témoin de la structuration albienne à sénonienne de la zone nord-pyrénéenne en Bigorre (Hautes Pyrénées, France), Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr., 8, 273-285, 1990.
22. Déramond, J., P. Souquet, M.J. Fondecave-Wallez, and M. Spetch, Relationships between thrust tectonics and sequence stratigraphy surfaces in foredeeps: Model and example from the Pyrenees (Cretaceous-Eocene, France, Spain), in Tectonics and Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy, edited by G.D. Williams and A. Dobb, pp. 193-219, Spec. Publ. 71, Geol. Soc. London, 1993.
23. Dinarés, J., E. McClelland, and P. Santanach, Contrasting rotations within thrust sheets and kinematics of thrust tectonics as derived from palaeomagnetic data: An example from the southern Pyrenees, in Thrust Tectonics, edited by K.R. McClay, pp. 265-275, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992.
24. Ellis, S., P. Fullsack, and C. Beaumont, Oblique convergence of the crust driven by basal forcing: Implications for length-scales of deformation and strain partitioning in orogens, Geophys. J. Int., 120, 24-44, 1995.
25. Ellis, S., C. Beaumont, R.A. Jamieson and G. Quinlan, Continental collision including a weak zone - The vise model and its application to the Newfoundland Appalachians, Can. J. Earth Sci., 35, 1323-1346, 1998.
26. England, P.C., and D. McKenzie, A thin viscous sheet model for continental deformation, Geophys. J.R. Astron. Soc., 70, 295-321, 1982.
27. Fitzgerald, P., J.A. Muñoz, P. Coney, and S. Baldwin, Asymmetric exhumation across the central Pyrenees: Implications for the tectonic evolution of a collisional orogen. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 173, 157-170, 1999.
28. Fullsack, P., An arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation for creeping flows and its application in tectonic models, Geophys. J. Int., 120, 1-23, 1995.
29. Garwin, L.J., Fission track dating and tectonics in the eastern Pyrenees, 218 pp., PhD thesis, Cambridge Univ., Cambridge, England, 1985.
30. Goldberg, J.M., and H. Maluski, Données nouvelles et mise au point sur l'âge du métamorphisme pyrénéen, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 306, 429-435, 1988.
31. Grimaud, S., G. Boillot, B.J. Colette, A. Mauffret, P.R. Miles, and D.B. Roberts, Western extension of the Iberian-European plate boundary during the Early Cenozoic (Pyrenean) convergence, a new model, Mar. Geol., 45, 63-77, 1982.
32. Harry, D.L., J.S. Oldow, and D.S. Sawyer, The growth of orogenic belts and the role of crustal heterogeneities in decollement tectonics, GSA Bull., 107(12), 1411-1426, 1995.
33. Huiqi, L., K.R. McClay, and D. Powell, Physical models of thrust wedges, in Thrust Tectonics, edited by K.R. McClay, pp. 71-81, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992.
34. Jaoul, O., J. Tullis, and A.K. Kronenberg, The effect of varying water contents on the creep behavior of Heavitree quartzite, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 4298-4312, 1984.
35. Koons, P.O., The two-sided orogen: Collision and erosion from the sandbox to the Southern Alps, New Zealand, Geology, 18, 679-682, 1990.
36. Le Pichon, X., and F. Barbier, Passive margin formation by low-angle faulting within the upper crust, the northern Bay of Biscay margin, Tectonics, 6, 133-150, 1987.
37. Ledo, J.J., Apliacacion del metodo magnetotelunco al estudio de la estructura litosfenca de los Pirineos, Ph.D. thesis, 196 pp., Univ. of Barcelona, Barcelona, 1996.
38. López Blanco, M., M. Marzo, D. Burbank, J. Vergés, E. Roca, P. Anadón, and J. Piña, Tectonic and climatic controls on the development of large, foreland fan deltas: Montserrat and Sant Llorenç del Munt systems (middle Eocene, Ebro basin, NE Spain), Sediment. Geol., 1999.
39. Malavieille, J., Modélisations expérimentale des chauvauchements imbriques: Application aux chaines des montagnes, Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr., 26, 129-138, 1984.
40. Marillier, F., A. Tomassino, P. Patriat, and B. Pinet, Deep structure of the Aquitaine shelf: Constraints from expanding spread profiles on the ECORS Bay of Biscay transect, Mar. Pet. Geol., 5, 65-74, 1988.
41. Mattauer, M., Vue autre interprétation du profil ECORS Pyrénées, Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr., 8, 307-311, 1990.
42. Mellere, D., Thrust-generated, back-fill stacking of alluvial fan sequences, south central Pyrenees, Spain (La Pobla de Segur Conglomerates), in Tectonic Control and Signatures in Sedimentary Successions, edited by L. Frostick and R. Steel, Spec. Publ. Int. Assoc. Sedimentol., 20, 259-276, 1993.
43. Millán, H., T. Den Bezemer, J. Vergés, R. Zoetemeijer, S. Cloetingh, M. Marzo, J.A. Muñoz, C. Puigdefàbregas, E. Roca, and J. Cirés, Present-day and middle Lutetian flexural modeling in the eastern Pyrenees and Ebro basin, Mar. Pet. Geol., 12, 917-928, 1995.
44. Muñoz, J.A., Evolution of a continental collision belt: ECORS Pyrenees crustal balanced cross section, in Thrust Tectonics, edited by K.R. McClay, pp. 235-246, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992.
45. Muñoz, J.A., A. Martinez, and J. Vergés, Thrust sequences in the eastern Spanish Pyrenees, J. Struct. Geol., 8, 399-405, 1986.
46. Olivet, J.-L., La cinématique de la plaque Ibérique, Bull. Cent. Rech. Explor. Prod. Elf Aquitaine, 20, 131-195, 1996.
47. Pinet, B., L. Montardet, and ECORS Scientific Party, Deep seismic reflection and refraction profiling along the Aquitaine shelf (Bay of Biscay), Geophys. J. R. Astron. Soc., 89, 305-312, 1987.
48. Pous, J., J.A. Muñoz, J. Ledo, and M. Liesa, Partial melting of the subducted continental lower crust in the Pyrenees, J. Geol. Soc. London, 152, 217-220, 1995.
49. Puigdefàbregas, C., and P. Souquet, Tectonosedimentary cycles and depositional sequences of the Mesozoic and Tertiary from the Pyrenees, Tectonophysics, 129, 173-203, 1986.
50. Puigdefàbregas, C., J.A. Muñoz, and M. Marzo, Thrust belt development in the eastern Pyrenees and related depositional sequences in the southern foreland basin, in Foreland Basins, edited by P.A. Allen and P. Homewood, Spec. Publ. Int. Assoc. Sedimentol., 8, 229-246, 1986.
51. 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.
52. Roest, W. R., and S. P. Srivastava, Kinematics of the plate boundaries between Eurasia, Iberia, and Africa in the North Atlantic from the Late Cretaceous to the present, Geology, 19, 613-616, 1991.
53. Roure, F., P. Choukroune, X. Berastegui, J.A. Muñoz, A. Villien, P. Matheron, M. Bareyt, M. Séguret, P. Cámara, and J. Déramond, ECORS deep seismic data and balanced cross-sections: Geometric constraints to trace the evolution of the Pyrenees, Tectonics, 8, 41-50, 1989.
54. Sàbat, F., E. Roca, J.A. Muñoz, J. Vergés, P. Santanach, M. Sans, E. Masana, A. Estévez, and C. Santisteban, Role of extension and compression in the evolution of the eastern margin of Iberia: The ESCI-València Trough seismic profile, Rev. Soc. Geol. España, 8, 431-448, 1997.
55. Séguret, M., and M. Daignières, Crustal scale balanced cross sections of the Pyrenees, discussion, Tectonophysics, 129, 303-318, 1986.
56. Shelton, G., and J. Tullis, Experimental flow laws for crustal rocks, Eos Trans. AGU, 62, 396, 1981.
57. Souriau, A., and M. Garnet, A tomographic study of the lithosphere beneath the Pyrenees from local and teleseismic data, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 18,117-18,134, 1995.
58. Teixell, A., The Anso transect of the southern Pyrenees: Basement and cover thrust geometries, J. Geol. Soc. London, 15, 301-310, 1996.
59. Teixell, A., Crustal structure and orogenic material budget in the west central Pyrenees, Tectonics, 17, 395-406, 1998.
60. Torné, M., B. de Cabissole, R. Bayer, A. Casas, M. Daignières, and A. Ribero, Gravity constraints on the deep structure of the Pyrenean belt along the ECORS profile, Tectonophysics, 165, 105-116, 1989.
61. Vergés, J., Estudi geologic del vessant sud del Pirineu oriental i central: Evolucio cinematica en 3D, 203 pp., Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Barcelona, Barcelona, 1993.
62. Vergés, J., and J.A. Muñoz, Thrust sequences in the southern central Pyrenees, Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr., 8, 265-271, 1990.
63. Vergés, J., H. Millán, 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, 893-915, 1995.
64. Vielzeuf, D., and J. Kornprobst, Crustal splitting and the emplacement of the Pyrenean lherzolites and granulites, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 67, 383-386, 1984.
65. Willett, S., C. Beaumont, and P. Fullsack, A mechanical model for the tectonics of doubly-vergent compressional orogens, Geology, 21, 371-374, 1993.
66. Yelland, A.J., Fission track thermotectonics in the Pyrenean orogen, Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas., 17, 293-299, 1990.