Terra NovaPub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1111/ter.12668
S. León, Sebastian Jimenez-Rodriguez, A. Piraquive, Sandra Florez‐Amaya, J. Muñoz-Rocha, M. L. Peña-Urueña, Amed Bonilla, Ingrid Facio Lince, D. Contreras‐Fayad, Carolina Jiménez
{"title":"Sediment provenance signal of the discontinuous retroarc topography in the northern Andes during the Early Cretaceous","authors":"S. León, Sebastian Jimenez-Rodriguez, A. Piraquive, Sandra Florez‐Amaya, J. Muñoz-Rocha, M. L. Peña-Urueña, Amed Bonilla, Ingrid Facio Lince, D. Contreras‐Fayad, Carolina Jiménez","doi":"10.1111/ter.12668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12668","url":null,"abstract":"A large dataset of detrital zircon U–Pb ages (N = 5940) of Aptian‐Albian strata of the Colombian‐Ecuadorian retroarc region suggests that these rocks were sourced from Proterozoic cratonic and Permian–Triassic to Cretaceous rocks of the Andean proto‐Cordilleras. The nonconformity between Aptian‐Albian strata and Proterozoic rocks of the Garzón Massif indicates the existence of positive relief in this region. Topographic highs could have caused local basin compartmentalization and the prevalence of a localized provenance of coeval strata. Areas of positive relief were seemingly exposed to intense chemical weathering as suggested by the high Chemical Index of Alteration values, and low Rb/Sr and SiO2/Al2O3 ratios of analysed strata. Our results highlight the value of provenance analysis to study the ancient topography of retroarc systems and open the avenue for further research on the role of extensional tectonics in the topographic and basin evolution in the Andes.","PeriodicalId":22260,"journal":{"name":"Terra Nova","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48007468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Terra NovaPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1111/ter.12667
I. Panea, D. Draganov, Catalin-Florin Bouaru, I. Munteanu
{"title":"Imaging of post‐collisional deformations on the NE Tisza continental unit using ambient seismic noise: A case study from the Țicău area, Romania","authors":"I. Panea, D. Draganov, Catalin-Florin Bouaru, I. Munteanu","doi":"10.1111/ter.12667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12667","url":null,"abstract":"The Ţicău area (NW Romania) is part of the collisional zone between the Tisza and Dacia mega‐units. Imaging of Ţicău area's subsurface geological structure will contribute to the understanding of the processes, which controlled its tectonic evolution. Analysis of outcrops provides accurate information for the building of kinematic sections used to explain the small‐scale deformations of sedimentary formations, such as those developed south of the Ţicău mountains. Imaging of large‐scale deformations requires analysis of data recorded and/or measured over a wider area. We use Seismic Interferometry by cross‐correlation on ambient noise recorded along with a line located north of the Ţicău mountains. The passive seismic section obtained after virtual body‐wave reflections processing displays folded and faulted Paleogene formations, which are in good agreement with the observations on outcrops found to the south of the Ţicău mountains. The active‐source data recorded along with the same line are too noisy for interpretation.","PeriodicalId":22260,"journal":{"name":"Terra Nova","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41756367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Terra NovaPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.1111/ter.12665
Antonin Bilau, Y. Rolland, T. Dumont, S. Schwartz, N. Godeau, A. Guihou, P. Deschamps
{"title":"Early onset of Pyrenean collision (97–90 Ma) evidenced by U–Pb dating on calcite (Provence, SE France)","authors":"Antonin Bilau, Y. Rolland, T. Dumont, S. Schwartz, N. Godeau, A. Guihou, P. Deschamps","doi":"10.1111/ter.12665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12665","url":null,"abstract":"Early Late Cretaceous uplift of Provence gave rise to the Durance Isthmus. In the present study, U–Pb dating on calcite of compressional structures related to Pyrenean foreland compressional deformation in Provence shows that N‐S shortening occurred coeval with emersion of the Durance Isthmus, through the development of combined top‐to‐the‐North to NW thrusts between 97 and 90 Ma. This large‐scale event, recorded from the Pyrenees to the Middle‐East regions is interpreted as a far‐field internal plate precursor of the Africa‐Europe plates reorganization. Furthermore, the change in tectonic style and amount of shortening between Provence and Pyrenees was accommodated by sinistral reactivation of the NE–SW Cevennes and Nimes faults, acting as transform boundaries in this incipient collisional context.","PeriodicalId":22260,"journal":{"name":"Terra Nova","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41941689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Terra NovaPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.1111/ter.12666
Ferdinando Musso Piantelli, Sandro Truttmann, M. Herwegh
{"title":"The control of collisional tectonics over valley morphology: the case of the largest glacier in the European Alps","authors":"Ferdinando Musso Piantelli, Sandro Truttmann, M. Herwegh","doi":"10.1111/ter.12666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12666","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how bedrock properties influence the valley‐forming processes of Alpine landscapes is an outstanding challenge. A multi‐methodological approach was used to uniformly quantify fault frequency, orientation, and rock hardness of crystalline basement rocks to evaluate their impact on the erosional processes that shaped the valley of the Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland. We show how variations in fault frequency and orientations, imposed by the inherited collisional framework of the area, controls the local erodibility of the valley, affecting both hillslopes and channel erosion processes. Our results highlight how tectonic preconditioning exerts a first‐order control on the efficiency of erosion in the mountain chain, elucidating an integral link between deep‐seated collisional dynamics and surface‐based mountain shaping. Moreover, our results express the importance of a uniform, quantitative characterization of bedrock properties to comprehend the interaction and variability of erosional processes and hazards distributed within the valley systems.","PeriodicalId":22260,"journal":{"name":"Terra Nova","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43723201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Terra NovaPub Date : 2023-05-20DOI: 10.1111/ter.12664
A. Ramos, A. Pedrera, J. García-Senz, B. Lopez-Mir, R. Salas
{"title":"Seismic evidence for ductile necking of the mid‐lower crust beneath the Columbrets Basin (Western Mediterranean)","authors":"A. Ramos, A. Pedrera, J. García-Senz, B. Lopez-Mir, R. Salas","doi":"10.1111/ter.12664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12664","url":null,"abstract":"The Columbrets Basin is the largest Mesozoic rift basin of the Valencia Trough in the Western Mediterranean. The analysis of a seismic‐reflection survey makes it possible to reconstruct the tectonic fabric underlying the sedimentary basin, including the structure of the top of the lower crust and the Moho. It is proposed that the ductile deformation of the mid‐lower crust was the main mechanism controlling the basin geometry, with the radial flow of mid‐lower crust coeval with the reactivation of two large‐offset SW‐dipping normal faults, inherited from the precursor Permian–Triassic rifting. Mid‐lower crustal necking occurred below the major depocenters, immediately before hyperextension. Our results provide new insight into the formation of circular‐shaped basins and the evolution of depth‐dependent extensional processes during rifting.","PeriodicalId":22260,"journal":{"name":"Terra Nova","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43130710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Terra NovaPub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1111/ter.12663
Hinrich A. Schmid‐Beurmann, Wolf-Achim Kahl, W. Bach, M. Ivarsson, M. Böttcher, Jörn Peckmann
{"title":"Dispersal of endolithic microorganisms in vesicular volcanic rock: Distribution, settlement and pathways revealed by 3D X‐ray microscopy","authors":"Hinrich A. Schmid‐Beurmann, Wolf-Achim Kahl, W. Bach, M. Ivarsson, M. Böttcher, Jörn Peckmann","doi":"10.1111/ter.12663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12663","url":null,"abstract":"Pleistocene basanitic rocks of Vesteris Seamount in the Greenland Sea had been found to exhibit an endolithic habitat largely consisting of marine fungi that dwell within abundant vesicles, therefore representing cryptoendoliths. For the first time, we demonstrate that 3D X‐ray microscopy can unravel how microorganisms access and migrate through vesicular rock. The fossil assemblages occur within a set of vesicles connected by microcracks. Such microcracks, which are ubiquitous features in submarine volcanic rocks, enable the dispersal of marine microorganisms in the rock. This study suggests that this pathway for the colonization of marine volcanic rocks forms in consequence of early tensional stress due to variable rates of cooling of the lava flow. Subsequently, the interconnected vesicles get populated by rock‐dwelling microorganisms. This cryptoendolithic habitat exists at least since the Paleoproterozoic.","PeriodicalId":22260,"journal":{"name":"Terra Nova","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45850391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}