Tectonic thickening of hanging-wall units over a ramp

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 924-932

  Koyi, Hemin A ^a   Maillot, Bertrand ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

Author keywords

Hanging wall; Kinematic models; Modeling; Ramp dip; Ramp friction; Thickening

Indexed keywords

FAULT FRICTION; HANGING-WALL UNITS; RAMP ANGLE; TECTONIC THICKENING;

DEFORMATION; FRICTION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DEFORMATION; DIP; FRICTION; GRANULAR MEDIUM; KINEMATICS; MODELING; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 34249291985     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Apperson K.D., and Goff D.F. Deformation of thrust ramps and footwalls observed in numerical models. EOS (Transactions, American Geophysical Union) 72 (1991) 514-515
2. Bahroudi A., and Koyi H.A. The effect of spatial distribution of Hormuz salt on deformation style in the Zagros fold and thrust belt: an analogue modeling approach. Journal of the Geological Society (London) 160 (2003) 719-733
3. Berger P., and Johnson A.M. First-order analysis of deformation of a thrust sheet moving over a ramp. Tectonophysics 70 (1980) T9-T24
4. Bonini M. Passive roof thrusting and foreland-ward fold propagation in scaled brittle-ductile physical models of thrust wedges. Journal of Geophysical Research 106 (2001) 2291-2311
5. Cristallini E.O., and Allmendinger R.W. Backlimb trishear: a kinematic model for curved folds developed over angular fault bends. Journal of Structural Geology 24 (2002) 289-295
6. Chester J., and Chester F. Fault propagation folds above thrusts with constant dip. Journal of Structural Geology 12 (1990) 903-910
7. Chester J.S., Logan J.M., and Spang J.H. Influence of layering and boundary conditions on fault-bend and fault-propagation folding. Geological Society of America Bulletin 103 (1991) 1059-1072
8. Cook D.G., and MacLean B.C. The Imperial anticline, a fault-bend fold above a bedding-parallel thrust ramp, Northwest Territories, Canada. Journal of Structural Geology 21 (1999) 215-228
9. Cotton J.T., and Koyi H.A. Modeling of thrust fronts above ductile and frictional decollements: application to structures in the salt range and potwar plateau, Pakistan. Geological Society of America Bulletin 112 (2000) 351-363
10. Davis D.M., and Engelder T. The role of salt in fold-and-thrust belts. Techtonophysics 119 (1985) 67-88
11. Dahlstrom C.D.A. The upper detachment in concentric folding. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 17 (1969) 326-346
12. Dahlstrom C.D.A. Geometric constraints derived from the law of conservation of volume and applied to evolutionary models for detachment folding. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 74 (1990) 336-344
13. Di Toro G., Goldsby D.L., and Tullis T.E. Friction falls towards zero in quartz rock as slip velocity approaches seismic rates. Nature 427 (2004) 436-439
14. Erickson S.G., and Jamison W.R. Viscous-plastic finite-element models of fault-bend folds. Journal of Structural Geology 17 (1995) 561-573
15. Erickson S.G., Strayer L.M., and Suppe J. Initiation and reactivation of faults during movement over a thrust-fault ramp: Numerical mechanical models. Journal of Structural Geology 23 (2001) 11-23
16. Fischer M.P., Woodward N.B., and Mitchell M.M. The kinematics of break-thrust folds. Journal of Structural Geology 14 (1992) 451-460
17. Jamison W.R. Geometric analysis of fold development in overthrust terranes. Journal of Structural Geology 9 (1987) 207-219
18. Kattenhorn, S.A., 1994. Outcrop-scale fault-related folds, Valley and Ridge province, Appalachians: comparison to kinematic model predictions: M.S. thesis, University of Akron, Ohio, 124 pp.
19. Kilsdonk B., and Fletcher R.C. An analytical model of hanging-wall and footwall deformation at ramps on normal and thrust faults. Tectonophysics 163 (1989) 153-168
20. Koyi H.A. Mode of internal deformation in model accretionary wedges. Journal of Structural Geology 17 2 (1995) 293-300
21. Koyi H.A., and Vendeville B. The effect of décollement dip on geometry and kinematics of model accretionary wedges. Journal of Structural Geology 25 9 (2004) 1445-1450
22. Koyi H.A., Sans M., Teixell A., Cotton J., and Zeyen H. The significance of penetrative strain in the restoration of shortened layers-Insights from sand models and the Spanish Pyrenees. In: McClay K.R. (Ed). Thrust Tectonics and Petroleum Systems. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 82 (2004) 207-222
23. Koyi H.A., and Cotton J. Experimental insights on the geometry and kinematics of fold-and-thrust belts above weak, viscous evaporitic decollement; a discussion. Journal of Structural Geology 26 (2004) 2139-2141
24. Letouzey J., Colletta B., Vially R., and Chermette J.C. Evolution of salt-related structures in compressional settings. In: Jackson M.P.A., Roberts D.G., and Snelson S. (Eds). Salt Tectonics. A global Perspective. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 65 (1995) 41-60
25. Maillot B., and Koyi H.A. Thrust dips and thrust refraction in fault-bend faults: analogue experiments and theoretical predictions. Journal of Structural Geology 28 (2006) 36-49
26. Maillot B., and Leroy Y.M. Optimal dip based on dissipation of back thrusts and hinges in fold-and-thrust belts. Journal of Geophysical Research 108, B6 (2003) 2320-2336
27. Maillot B., and Leroy Y.M. Kink-fold onset and development based on the maximum strength theorem. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 54 (2006) 2030-2059
28. Maillot B., Barnes C., Mengus J.-M., and Daniel J.-M. Constraints on friction coefficients by an inverse analysis of sand box thrust dips. Journal of Structural Geology 29 (2007) 117-128
29. Marone C., Saffer D.M., and Frye K.M. Weak and potentially unstable frictional behavior of smectite clay. EOS(Transactions, American Geophysical Union) 80 46 (1999) F689
30. McNaught M.A., and Mitra G. A kinematic model for the origin of footwall synclines. Journal of Structural Geology 15 (1993) 805-808
31. Mercier E., Outtani F., and Frizon de Lamotte D. Late stage evolution of fault-propagation fold: principles and examples. Journal of Structural Geology 19 (1997) 185-193
32. Merle O., and Abidi N. Approche expérimentale du fonctionnement des rampes émergentes. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 166 5 (1995) 439-450
33. Mitra S. Fault-propagation folds: Geometry, kinematic evolution, and hydrocarbon traps. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 74 (1990) 921-945
34. Mitra S. Balanced structural interpretations in fold and thrust belts. In: Mitra S., and Fisher G.W. (Eds). Structural Geology of Fold and Thrust Belts (1992), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 53-77
35. Persson K. Effective indenters and the development of double-vergent orogens; insights from analogue sand models. In: Koyi H.A., and Mancktelow N.S. (Eds). Tectonic Modeling; A Volume in Honor of Hans Ramberg. Geological Society of America Memoir 193 (2001) 191-206
36. Poblet J., and McClay K. Geometry and kinematics of single-layer detachment folds. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 80 (1996) 1085-1109
37. Ramsay J.G. Some geometric problems of ramp-flat thrust models. In: McClay K.R. (Ed). Thrust Tectonics (1992), Chapman & Hall, London 191-200
38. Rich J.L. Mechanics of low-angle overthrust faulting as illustrated by Cumberland thrust block, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 33 (1934) 1643-1654
39. Salençon J. Théorie de la plasticité pour les applications à la mécanique des sols (1974), Editions Eyrolles, Paris English translation: Applications of the Theory of Plasticity in Soil Mechanics. Wiley, New York, 1977
40. Smart K.J., and Couzens-Schultz B.A. Mechanics of blind thrusting: Comparison of numerical and physical modeling. The Journal of Geology 109 (2001) 771-779
41. Strayer L.M., and Hudleston P.J. Numerical modeling of fold initiation at thrust ramps. Journal of Structural Geology 19 (1997) 551-566
42. Suppe J. Geometry and kinematics of fault-bend folding. American Journal of Science 283 (1983) 684-721
43. Suppe J. Principles of Structural Geology (1985), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 537 pp.
44. Suppe J., and Medwedeff D.A. Geometry and kinematics of fault-propagation folding. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 83 (1990) 409-454
45. Waldron J.W.F. Anatomy and evolution of a pull-apart basin, Stellarton, Nova Scotia. Geological Society of America Bulletin 116 (2004) 109-127
46. Wickham. Fault displacement-gradient folds and the structure at Lost Hills, California (USA). Journal of Structural Geology 17 (1995) 1293-1302
47. Willis B., and Willis R. Geologic structures (1934), McGraw Hill, New York 544 pp.
48. Wiltschko D.V. A mechanical model for thrust sheet deformation at a ramp. Journal of Geophysical Research 84 (1979) 1091-1104
49. Withjack M.O., and Peterson E.T. Prediction of normal-fault geometries-a sensitivity analysis. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 77 11 (1993) 1860-1873