Solution slip and separations on strike-slip fault zones: Theory and application to the Mattinata Fault, Italy

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 703-715

  Billi, Andrea ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fault zone shortening; Mattinata Fault; Solution cleavage; Solution separation; Solution slip

Indexed keywords

STRIKE-SLIP FAULT ZONES;

ROCK MECHANICS; STRATIGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CLEAVAGE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; SOLUTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ITALY;

EID: 0037408649     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(02)00077-9     Document Type: Article

References (84)

1. Aiello, G., de Alteriis, G., 1991. Il margine adriatico della Puglia: fisiografia ed evoluzione terziaria. Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 47, 197-212.
2. Alvarez, W., Engelder, T., 1982. Solution cleavage and estimates of shortening, Umbrian Apenines. In Borradaile, G.J., Bayly, M.B., Powell, C.M., (Eds.), Atlas of Deformational and Metamorphic Rock Fabrics, 178-179. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
3. Alvarez, W., Engelder, T., Geiser, P.A., 1978. Classification of solution cleavage in pelagic limestones. Geology 6, 263-266.
4. Anzidei, M., Baldi, P., Casula, G., Crespi, M., Riguzzi, F., 1996. Repeated GPS surveys across the Ionian Sea: evidence of crustal deformations. Geophysical Journal International 127, 257-267.
5. Aydin, A., 1978. Small faults formed as deformation bands in sandstone. Pure and Applied Geophysics 116, 913-930.
6. Aydin, A., 1988. Discontinuities along thrust faults and the cleavage duplexes. In: Mitra, G., Wojtal, S. (Eds.), Geometries and Mechanics of Thrusting. Geological Society of America Special Publication 222, pp. 223-232.
7. Aydin, A., Johnson, A.M., 1978. Development of faults as zones of deformation bands and as slip surfaces in sandstone. Pure and Applied Geophysics 116, 931-942.
8. Bell, T.H., 1978. The development of slaty cleavage across the Nackara Arc of the Adelaide geosyncline. Tectonophysics, 51 171-201.
9. Bertotti, G., Casolari, E., Picotti, V., 1999. The Gargano Promontory: a Neogene contractional belt within the Adriatic plate. Terra Nova 11, 168-173.
10. Beutner, E.C., Charles, E.G., 1985. Large volume loss during cleavage formation, Hamburg sequence, Pennsylvania. Geology 13, 803-805.
11. Billi, A., 2000. Stili e processi deformativi nell'avampaese apulo. Ph.D. thesis, "Roma Tre" University of Rome.
12. Billi, A., Salvini, F., 2000. Sistemi di fratture associati a faglie in rocce carbonatiche: Nuovi dati sull'evoluzione tettonica del Promontorio del Gargano. Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana 119, 237-250.
13. Billi, A., Salvini, F., 2001. Fault-related solution cleavage in exposed carbonate reservoir rocks in the southern Apennines, Italy. Journal of Petroleum Geology 24, 147-169.
14. Borgomano, J.R., 2000. The Upper Cretaceous carbonates of the Gargano and Murge region, southern Italy: a model of platform-to-basin transition. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 84 1561-1588.
15. Bosellini, A., Neri, C., Luciani, V. 1993. Guida ai carbonati cretaceo-eocenici di scarpata e bacino del Gargano. Annali dell'Università di Ferrara, Scienze della Terra, 4 1-77.
16. Bosellini, A., Neri, C., Luciani, V., 1993. Platform margin collapses and sequence stratigraphic organization of carbonate slopes: Cretaceous-Eocene, Gargano Promontory, Southern Italy. Terra Nova 5, 282-297.
17. Bosellini, A., Morsilli, M., Neri, C., 1999. Long-term event stratigraphy of the Apulia platform margin (Upper Jurassic to Eocene, Gargano, Southern Italy). Journal of Sedimentary Research 69, 1241-1252.
18. Casolari, E., Negri, A., Picotti, V., Bertotti, G., 2000. Neogene stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Gargano Promontory (southern Italy). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 93, 7-23.
19. Chilovi, C., De Feyter, A. J., Pompucci, A. 2000. Wrench zone reactivation in the Adriatic block: the example of the Mattinata Fault system (SE Italy). Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana 119, 3-8.
20. Conybeare, C.E., 1949. Stylolites in Precambrian quartzite. Journal of Geology 57, 83-85.
21. Davidson, S.G., Anastasio, D.J., Bebout, G.E., Holl, J.E., Hedlund, C.A., 1998. Volume loss and metasomatism during cleavage formation in carbonate rocks. Journal of Structural Geology, 20 707-726.
22. de Alteriis, G., 1995. Different foreland basins in Italy: examples from the central and southern Adriatic Sea. Tectonophysics 252, 349-373.
23. de Dominicis, A., Mazzoldi, G., 1987. Interpretazione geologico- strutturale del margine orientale della piattaforma apula. Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 38, 163-176.
24. Dennis, J.G., 1967. International tectonic dictionary. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoirs 7
25. Doglioni, C., Mongelli, F., Pieri, P., 1994. The Puglia uplift (SE Italy). an anomaly in the foreland of the Apenninic subduction due to buckling of a thick continental lithosphere. Tectonics 13, 1309-1321.
26. Durney, D.W. 1972. Solution-transfer, an important geological deformation mechanism. Nature, 235 315-317.
27. Durney, D.W., Kisch, H.J., 1994. A field classification and intensity scale for first-generation cleavages. AGSO Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 15, 257-295.
28. Engelder, T., 1984. The role of pore water circulation during the deformation of foreland fold and thrust belts. Journal of Geophysical Research, 89 4319-4325.
29. Engelder, T., Geiser, P.A., 1979. The relationship between pencil cleavage and lateral shortening within the Devonian section of the Appalachian Plateau, New York. Geology 7, 460-464.
30. Favali, P., Funiciello, R., Mattietti, G., Mele, G., Salvini, F., 1993. An active margin across the Adriatic Sea (central Mediterranean Sea). Tectonophysics 219, 109-117.
31. Finetti, I., Del Ben, A. 1986. Geophysical study of the Tyrrhenian opening. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata 28, 75-155.
32. Finetti, I., Bricchi, G., Del Ben, A., Pipan, A., Xuan, Z., 1987. Geophysical study of the Adria plate. Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 40, 335-344.
33. Funiciello, R., Montone, P., Salvini, F., Tozzi, M. 1988. Caratteri strutturali del Promontorio del Gargano. Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 41, 1235-1243.
34. Gambini, R., Tozzi, M., 1996. Tertiary geodynamic evolution of the Southern Adria microplate. Terra Nova 8, 336-340.
35. Gratier, J.P. 1983. Estimation of volume changes by comparative chemical analyses in heterogeneously deformed rocks (folds with mass transfer). Journal of Structural Geology 5, 329-339.
36. Gray, M.B., Mitra, G., 1993. Migration of deformation fronts during progressive deformation: evidence from detailed structural studies in the Pennsylvania Anthracite region, USA. Journal of Structural Geology 15, 435-449.
37. Graziano, R., 1999. The Early Cretaceous drowning unconformities of the Apulia carbonate platform (Gargano Promontory, southern Italy): local fingerprints of global palaeoceanographic events. Terra Nova 11, 245-250.
38. Graziano, R., 2000. The Aptian-Albian of the Apulia carbonate platform (Gargano Promontory, southern Italy): evidence of the palaeoceanographic and tectonic controls on the stratigraphic architecture of the platform margin. Cretaceous Research 21, 107-126.
39. Groshong, R.H., 1975. "Slip" cleavage caused by pressure solution in a buckle fold. Geology 3, 411-413.
40. Groshong, R.H., 1975. Strain, fractures, and pressure solution in natural single-layer folds. Geological Society of America Bulletin 86, 1363-1376.
41. Groshong, R.H., 1976. Strain and pressure solution in the Martinsburg slate, Delaware Water Gap, New Jersey. American Journal of Science 276 1131-1146.
42. Groshong, R.H., 1988. Low-temperature deformation mechanisms and their interpretation. Geological Society of America Bulletin 100, 1329-1360.
43. Groshong, R.H., 1999. 3-D Structural Geology. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
44. Guerricchio, R., 1983. Strutture tettoniche di compressione nel Gargano di elevato interesse applicativo evidenziate da immagine da satellite. Geologia Applicata e Idrogeologia 18, 491-505.
45. Guerricchio, R., 1986. Esempi di bacini di pull apart nel Gargano (Puglia settentrionale). Geologia Applicata e Idrogeologia 21, 25-36.
46. Guerricchio, A., Pierri, P., 1998. Sismicità del territorio di San Giovanni Rotondo (FG). Geologia Tecnica & Ambientale 6/3, 25-39.
47. Hobbs, B.E., Means, W.D., Williams, P.F. 1976. An Outline of Structural Geology. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
48. Markley, M., Wojtal, S., 1996. Mesoscopic structure, strain and volume loss in folded cover strata, Valley and Ridge Province, Maryland. American Journal of Science 296, 23-57.
49. Marshak, S., Mitra, G. 1988. Basic Methods of Structural Geology. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
50. Masse, J.-P, Luperto Sinni, E., 1987. A platform to basin transition model: the lower Cretaceous carbonates of the Gargano massif (southern Italy). Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 40, 99-108.
51. McNaught, M.A., Mitra, G., 1996. The use of finite strain data in constructing a retrodeformable cross-section of the Meade thrust sheet, southeastern Idaho, USA. Journal of Structural Geology 18, 573-583.
52. Mimran, Y., 1977. Chalk deformation and large-scale migration of calcium carbonate. Sedimentology 24, 333-360.
53. Mitra, G., 1994. Strain variation in thrust sheets across the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt (Idaho-Utah-Wyoming): implications for section restoration and wedge taper evolution. Journal of Structural Geology 16, 585-602.
54. Mitra, G., Yonkee, W.A., 1985. Relationship of spaced cleavage to folds and thrusts in the Idaho-Utah-Wyoming thrust belt. Journal of Structural Geology 7, 361-373.
55. Mitra, G., Yonkee, W.A., Gentry, D.J., 1984. Solution cleavage and its relationship to major structures in the Idaho-Utah-Wyoming thrust belt. Geology 12, 354-358.
56. Mollema, P.N., Antonellini, M.A., 1996. Compaction bands: a structural analog for anti-mode I cracks in aeolian sandstone. Tectonophysics 267, 209-228.
57. Morsilli, M., Bosellini, A. 1997. Carbonate facies zonation of the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Apulia platform margin (Gargano Promontory, Southern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 103, 193-206.
58. Nickelsen, R.P., 1966. Fossil distortion and penetrative rock deformation in the Appalachian plateau, Pennsylvania. Journal of Geology 74, 924-931.
59. Nickelsen, R.P., 1972. Attributes of rock cleavage in some mudstones and limestones of the Valley and Ridge Province, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Academy of Science 46, 107-112.
60. Nickelsen, R.P., 1986. Cleavage duplexes in the Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian foreland. Journal of Structural Geology 8, 361-371.
61. Ortolani, F., Pagliuca, S., 1987. Tettonica transpressiva nel Gargano e rapporti con le catene Appenninica e Dinarica. Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 38, 205-224.
62. Ortolani, F., Pagliuca, S., 1988. Il Gargano (Italia Meridionale): un settore di "avampaese" deformato tra le catene appenninica e dinarica. Congresso della Società Geologica Italiana, 74 A411-A417.
63. Peacock, D.C., Sanderson, D.J., 1995. Pull-aparts, shear fractures and pressure solution. Tectonophysics 241, 1-13.
64. Peacock, D.C.P., Fisher, Q.J., Willemse, E.M.J., Aydin, A., 1999. The relationship between faults and pressure solution seams in carbonate rocks and the implications for fluid flow. In: Jones, G., Fisher, Q.J., Knipe, R.J. (Eds.), Faulting, Fault Sealing and Fluid flow in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs. Geological Society Special Publication 147, pp. 105-115.
65. Protzman, G.M., Mitra, G., 1990. Strain fabric associated with the Meade thrust sheet: implications for cross-section balancing. Journal of Structural Geology 12, 403-417.
66. Ramsay, J.G., Wood, D.S., 1972. The geometric effects of volume change during deformation processes. Tectonophysics 16, 263-277.
67. Ricchetti, G., Pieri, P. (Eds.), 1999. Guide Geologiche Regionali a cura della Società Geologica Italiana, Puglia e Monte Vulture. BE-MA editrice, Roma.
68. Roy, A.B., 1978. Evolution of slaty cleavage in relation to diagenesis and metamorphism: a study from Hunsruckschiefer. Geological Society of America Bulletin 89, 1775-1785.
69. Salvini, F., Billi, A., Wise, D.U., 1999. Strike-slip fault-propagation cleavage in carbonate rocks: the Mattinata Fault zone, Southern Apennines, Italy. Journal of Structural Geology 21, 1731-1749.
70. Sellwood, B.W., 1996. Shallow-marine carbonate environments. In H. G. Reading (Ed.), Sedimentary Environments and Facies, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 283-342.
71. Servizio Geologico d'Italia, 1965. Carta Geologica D'Italia, scala 1:100.000, Foglio 164 "Monte S. Angelo". Servizio Geologico d'Italia Map 164, scale 1:100,000.
72. Servizio Geologico d'Italia, 1970. Carta Geologica D'Italia, scala 1:100.000, Foglio 156 "S. Marco in Lamis". Servizio Geologico d'Italia Map 159, scale 1:100,000.
73. Sharpe, D., 1847. On slaty cleavage. Geological Society of London Quarterly Journal, 3 74-105.
74. Stockdale, P.B., 1926. The stratigraphic significance of solution in rocks. Journal of Geology 34, 399-414.
75. Tramontana, M., Morelli, D., Colantoni, P., 1995. Tettonica plio- quaternaria del sistema sud-garganico (settore orientale) nel quadro evolutivo dell'Adriatico centro-meridionale. Studi Geologici Camerti, Volume Speciale, 1995/2 467-473.
76. van der Pluijm, B.A., Marshak, S., 1997. Earth Structure: an Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics. New York: McGraw-Hill.
77. Whitaker, A.E., Bartholomew, M.J., 1999. Layer parallel shortening: a mechanism for determining deformation timing at the junction of the central and southern Appalachians. American Journal of Science 299, 238-254.
78. Willemse, E.M., Peacock, D.C., Aydin, A., 1997. Nucleation and growth of strike-slip faults in limestones from Somerset, UK. Journal of Structural Geology 19, 1461-1477.
79. Wintsch, R.P., Kvale, C.M., Kisch, H.D., 1991. Open-system, constant volume development of slaty cleavage, and strain-induced replacement reactions in the Martinsburg Formation, Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania. Geological Society of America Bulletin 103, 916-927.
80. Wise, D.U., Vincent, R.J., 1965. Rotation axis method for detecting conjugate planes in calcite petrofabric. American Journal of Science 263, 289-301.
81. Wojtal, S., 1986. Deformation within foreland thrust sheets by populations of minor faults. Journal of Structural Geology 8, 341-360.
82. Wojtal, S., Mitra, G., 1986. Strain hardening and strain softening in fault zones from foreland thusts. Geological Society of America Bulletin 97, 674-687.
83. Wright, T.O., Henderson, J.R., 1992. Volume loss during cleavage formation in the Meguma Group, Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Structural Geology 14, 281-290.
84. Wright, T.O., Platt, L.B., 1982. Pressure dissolution and cleavage in the Martinsburg Shale. American Journal of Science 282, 122-135.