Vertical-axis rotation of a foreland fold and implications for orogenic curvature: An example from the Southern Pyrenees, Spain

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 435-449

  Sussman, Aviva J ^a   Butler, Robert F ^a   Dinarès Turell, Jaume ^b   Vergés, Jaume ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Oliana anticline; Paleomagnetism; Pyrenees; Salients; Synorogenic strata

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; FOLDING; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; ROTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 1142293184     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00644-7     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Miser D.L.Oklahoma structural salient of the Ouachita Mountains Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 43 1932 1-38
2. E. Suess, The Face of the Earth, translated from Ferman by H.B.C. Sollas and H.J. Sollas, Clarendon, Oxford, 1909, 672 pp.
3. Hobbs W.H.Mechanics of formation of arcuate mountain belts J. Geol. 22 1914 72-90
4. Carey S.W.The orocline concept in geotectonics Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania 89 1955 255-288
5. Elliott D.The motion of thrust sheets J. Geophys. Res. 81 1976 949-963
6. Sanderson D.J.Models of strain variation in nappes and thrust sheets; a review Tectonophysics 88 1982 201-233
7. Marshak S.Kinematics of orocline and arc formation in thin-skinned orogens Tectonics 7 1988 73-86
8. Wilkerson M.S.Differential transport and continuity of thrust sheets J. Struct. Geol. 14 1992 749-775
9. Hindle H.Burkhard M.Strain, displacement and rotation associated with the formation of curvature on fold belts; the example of the Jura arc J. Struct. Geol. 21 1999 1089-1101
10. W. Lowrie, A.M. Hirt, Paleomagnetism in arcuate mountain belts, in: F.C. Wezel (Ed.), The Origin of Arcs, Developments in Geotectonics, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1986, pp. 141-158.
11. Van der Voo R.Stamatakos J.A.Pares J.M.Kinematic constraints on thrust-belt curvature from syndeformational magnetizations in the Lagos del Valle Syncline in the Cantabrian Arc, Spain J. Geophys. Res. 102 1997 105-120
12. Weil A.B.Van der Voo R.van der Pluijm B.A.Pares J.The formation of an orocline by multiphase deformation; a paleomagnetic investigation of the Cantabria Asturias Arc (northern Spain) J. Struct. Geol. 22 2000 735-756
13. Weil A.B.Van der Voo R.van der Pluijm B.A.Oroclinal bending and evidence against the Pangea megashear; the Cantabria-Asturias Arc (northern Spain) Geology 29 2001 991-994
14. Butler R.F.Richards D.R.Sempere T.Marshall L.G.Paleomagnetic determinations of vertical-axis tectonic rotations from Late Cretaceous and Paleocene strata of Bolivia Geology 23 1995 799-802
15. Roperch P.Fornari M.Hérail G.Parraguez G.V.Tectonic rotations within the Bolivian Altiplano: Implications for the geodynamic evolution of the central Andes during the late Tertiary J. Geophys. Res. 105 2000 795-820
16. Grubbs K.L.Van der Voo R.Structural deformation of the Idaho - Wyoming overthrust belt (U.S.A.), as determined by Triassic paleomagnetism Tectonophysics 33 1976 321-336
17. Schwartz S.Y.Van der Voo R.Paleomagnetic study of thrust sheet rotation during foreland impingement in the Wyoming - Idaho overthrust belt J. Geophys. Res. 89 1984 10077-10086
18. Eldredge S.Van der Voo R.Paleomagnetic study of thrust sheet rotations in the Helena and Wyoming salients of the northern Rocky Mountains Geol. Soc. Am. Mem. 171 1988 319-332
19. Schwartz S.Y.Van der Voo R.Paleomagnetic evaluation of the orocline hypothesis in the central and southern Appalachians Geophys. Res. Lett. 10 1983 505-508
20. Kent D.V.Further paleomagnetic evidence for oroclinal rotation in the central folded Appalachians from the Bloomsburg and Mauch Chunk Formations Tectonics 7 1988 749-759
21. Stamatakos J.Hirt A.M.Paleomagnetic considerations of the development of the Pennsylvania salient in the central Appalachians Tectonophysics 231 1994 237-255
22. Stamatakos J.Hirt A.M.Lowrie W.The age and timing of folding in the central Appalachians from paleomagnetic results Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 108 1996 815-829
23. Gray M.B.Stamatakos J.New model for evolution of fold and thrust belt curvature based on integrated structural and paleomagnetic results from the Pennsylvania Salient Geology 25 1997 12-15
24. Vergés J.Munoz J.A.Thrust sequence in the southern central Pyrenees Bull. Soc. Geol. France 6 1990 265-271
25. Burbank D.W., Puigdefabregas C., Munoz J.A. The chronology of the Eocene tectonic and stratigraphic development of the eastern Pyrenean foreland basin, northeast Spain Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 104 1992 1101-1120
26. Burbank D.W.Vergés J.Munz J.A.Bentham P.Coeval hindward- and foreward-imbricating thrusting in the south-central Pyrenees, Spain: Timing and rates of shortening and deposition Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 104 1992 3-17
27. Burbank D.W.Vergés J.Reconstruction of topography and related depositional systems during active thrusting J. Geophys. Res. 99 1994 2021-20297
28. Meigs A.J.Vergés J.Burbank D.W.Ten-million-year history of a thrust sheet Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 108 1996 1608-1625
29. Meigs A.J.Sequential development of selected Pyrenean thrust faults J. Struct. Geol. 19 1997 481-502
30. Boillot G.Comparison between the Galicia and Aquitaine margins Tectonophysics 129 1986 243-255
31. J.A. Munoz, Evolution of a continental collision belt: ECORS-Pyrenees crustal balanced cross-section, in: K.R. McClay (Ed.), Thrust Tectonics, Chapman and Hall, London, 1992, pp. 235-246.
32. Segueret M.Etude tectonique des nappes et séries décollées de la partoed centrale du versant sud des Pyrenées Publ. USTELA Geol. Struct. 2 1972 155
33. Simo A.Carbonate platform depositional sequences, Upper Cretaceous, south-central Pyrenees (Spain) Tectonophysics 129 1986 205-231
34. E. Mutti, J. Rosell, G.P. Allen, F. Fonnesu, M. Sgavetti, The Eocene Bartonia tide dominated delta-shelf system in the Ager basin, Guidebook for the 6th European Regional Meeting, Lerida, Spain, 1985, pp. 579-600.
35. C. Puigdefàbregas, J.A. Munoz, M. Marzo, Thrust belt development in the eastern Pyrenees and related depositional sequences in the southern foreland basin, in: P.A. Allen, P. Homewood (Eds.), Foreland Basins, Blackwell, Oxford, 1986, pp. 229-246.
36. Caus E.Aportaciones al conocimiento del Eoceno dell anticlinal de Oliana (Prov. Del Lerida) Acta Geol. Hisp. 8 1973 7-10
37. A. Saez, Estratigrafia y sedimentologia de las formaciones lacustres del transito Eoceo-Oligoceo de NE de la cuenca del Ebro, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 1972, 352 pp.
38. D.J. Anastasio, Structural evolution of the External Sierra, southern Pyrenees, Spain, in: S. Mitra, G.W. Fisher (Eds.), Structural Geology of Fold-and-Thrust Belts, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1992, pp. 239-251.
39. Coney P.J.Munoz J.A.McClay K.R.Evenchick C.A.Syntectonic burial and post-tectonic exhumation of the southern Pyrenees foreland fold-thrust belt J. Geol. Soc. London 153 1996 9-16
40. Meigs A.J.Burbank D.W.Growth of the South Pyrenean orogenic wedge Tectonics 16 1997 239-258
41. J. Vergés, Estudi tectonic del Vessant sud del Pirineu oriental i central: Evolucio cinematica en 3D, Ph.D. Dissertation, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 1993, 203 pp.
42. J. Vergés, D.W. Burbank, Eocene-Oligocene thrusting and basin configuration in the eastern and central Pyrenees (Spain), in: P.F. Friend, C.R. Dabrio (Eds.), Tertiary Basins of Spain: The Stratigraphic Record of Crustal Kinematics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 120-133.
43. Sussman A.J.Curtin T.M.Structural and stratigraphic controls on the development of joints within the Oliana Anticline, southern Pyrenees, Spain Geol. Soc. Am. Ab. Prog. 34 2002 165
44. A.J. Sussman, Thrust belt curvature: Structural and paleomagnetic analyses in the Catalunyan Pyrenees and Sevier orogen, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Arizona, 2003, 175 pp.
45. Kirschvink J.L.The least-squares line and plane and the analysis of paleomagnetic data Geophys. J. R. Astron. Soc. 62 1980 699-718
46. Fisher R.A.Dispersion on a sphere Proc. R. Soc. London 217A 1953 295-305
47. McFadden P.L.McElhinny M.W.Classification of the reversal test in palaeomagnetism Geophys. J. Int. 103 1990 725-729
48. Cande S.C.Kent D.V.Revised calibration of the geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic J. Geophys. Res. 100 1995 6093-6095
49. Watson G.S.Enkin R.J.The fold test in paleomagnetism as a parameter estimation problem Geophys. Res. Lett. 20 1993 2135-2137
50. N.I. Fisher, T. Lewis, B.J. Embleton, Statistical Analysis of Spherical Data, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987, 329 pp.
51. L. Tauxe, Paleomagnetic Principles and Practice, Kluwer Academic, 1998.
52. J. Dinarès, Paleomagnetic study of the Southpyrenean Upper Thrust Sheets: tectonic implications, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 1992, 461 pp.
53. Gomis E.M.Parés J.Cabrera L.Nuevos datos magnetostratigraficos del transito Oligocene-Miocene en el sector SE de la Cuence del Ebro (provincias de Lleida, Zaragoza y Huesca, NE de España) Acta Geol. Hisp. 32 1997 185-199
54. Beck M.E.Paleomagnetic record of plate-margin tectonics processes along the western edge of North America J. Geophys. Res. 85 1980 7115-7131
55. Demarest H.H.Error analysis of the determination of tectonic rotation from paleomagnetic data J. Geophys. Res. 88 1983 4321-4328
56. J. Dinarès, E. McClelland, P. Santanach, Contrasting rotations within thrust sheets and kinematics of thrust tectonics as derived from palaeomagnetic data: an example from the Southern Pyrenees, in: K.R. McClay (Ed.), Thrust Tectonics, Chapman and Hall, London, 1992, pp. 265-275.
57. Pueyo E.L.Millan H.Pocovi A.Rotation velocity of a thrust; a paleomagnetic study in the External Sierras (southern Pyrenees) Sediment. Geol. 146 2002 191-208
58. Keller P.Lowrie W.Gehring A.U.Palaeomagnetic evidence for post- thrusting tectonic rotation in the Southeast Pyrenees, Spain Tectonophysics 239 1994 29-42