TectonicsPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1029/2024tc008308
Autumn L. Helfrich, J. Ryan Thigpen, Victoria M. Buford-Parks, Nadine McQuarrie, Summer J. Brown, Ryan C. Goldsby
{"title":"Constraining Displacement Magnitude on Crustal-Scale Extensional Faults Using Thermochronology Combined With Flexural-Kinematic and Thermal-Kinematic Modeling: An Example From the Teton Fault, Wyoming, USA","authors":"Autumn L. Helfrich, J. Ryan Thigpen, Victoria M. Buford-Parks, Nadine McQuarrie, Summer J. Brown, Ryan C. Goldsby","doi":"10.1029/2024tc008308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024tc008308","url":null,"abstract":"Constraining the geometry and displacement of crustal-scale normal faults has historically been challenging, owing to difficulties with geophysical imaging and inability to identify precise cut-offs at depth. Using a modified workflow previously applied to contractional systems, flexural-kinematic (<i>Move</i>) and thermal-kinematic (<i>Pecube</i>) models are integrated with apatite (U-Th)/He (AHe) and apatite fission track (AFT) data from Teton footwall transects to constrain total Teton fault displacement (<i>D</i><sub><i>max</i></sub>). Models with slip onset at ∼10 Ma and flexure parameters that best match the observed Teton flexural profile require <i>D</i><sub><i>max</i></sub> > 8 km to produce young (<10 Ma) AHe ages observed at low elevation footwall positions in the Tetons. For the same slip onset, models with <i>D</i><sub><i>max</i></sub> of 11–13 km provide the best match to observed AHe data, but displacements ≥16 km are required to produce observed AFT ages (13.6–12.0 Ma) at low elevations. A more complex model with slow slip onset at ∼25 Ma followed by faster slip at ∼10 Ma yields a good match between modeled and observed AHe ages at a <i>D</i><sub><i>max</i></sub> of 13–15 km. However, this model predicts low elevation AFT ages 6–8 Ma older than observed ages, even at <i>D</i><sub><i>max</i></sub> values of 16–17 km. Based on this analysis and integration with previous studies, we propose a unified evolution wherein the Teton fault likely experienced 11–13 km of Miocene-recent displacement, with AFT data likely indicating a pre-to early Miocene cooling history. Importantly, this study highlights the utility of using integrated flexural- and thermal-kinematic models to resolve displacement histories in extensional systems.","PeriodicalId":22351,"journal":{"name":"Tectonics","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141613966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Late Miocene Oroclinal Bending of the Mazatagh Thrust Belt in the Central Tarim Basin and Its Tectonic Implications","authors":"Bingshuai Li, Maodu Yan, Heng Peng, Weilin Zhang, Jinbo Zan, Tao Zhang, Xiaomin Fang","doi":"10.1029/2023tc008233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023tc008233","url":null,"abstract":"The arcuate Mazatagh thrust belt (MTB) in the central Tarim Basin is one of the key regions for understanding the Cenozoic intracontinental deformation in response to the India–Eurasia collision. However, whether it was formed due to oroclinal bending and its kinematic processes remain unclear. Here, we present a detailed paleomagnetic rotation study at Hongbaishan in the middle MTB to shed new light on the deformation in this region. Positive fold and reversal tests of 50 site means suggest primary magnetizations. The paleomagnetic declinations indicate ∼14.6 ± 8.5° absolute clockwise rotation at Hongbaishan since the late Miocene (∼7.6 Ma). Together with the rotation results calculated from Hongbaishan-1 and Mazatagh magnetostratigraphic data sets in the southeastern MTB, these results reveal an increasing magnitude of clockwise rotation along the belt toward its southeastern tip. Positive oroclinal tests along the MTB suggest the occurrence of oroclinal bending that curved the originally straight MTB before and during the deposition of its lower part, and nearly half of the bending had occurred during the deposition of its upper part. This oroclinal bending is mostly attributed to the northward indentation of the West Kunlun Mountains along the décollement salt‒gypsum layers and further implies ∼7.9° absolute clockwise rotation of the Tarim Basin since the late Miocene. Integrating these findings with other lines of geological evidence around the Tarim Basin, we propose that episodic widespread tectonic deformation with basinward propagation occurred since the late Miocene due to the far-field effect of the continuous northward indentation of the Indian Plate into Eurasia.","PeriodicalId":22351,"journal":{"name":"Tectonics","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonicsPub Date : 2024-07-04DOI: 10.1029/2023tc007922
Mervin J. Bartholomew, Demin Liu, Andrew M. Mickelson, Lian Brugere, Tammy Rittenour, Guo Q. Sun
{"title":"Timing of Holocene Surface-Ruptures Across Adjacent Rupture-Segments Where the Jinsha River Crosses the Yushu Fault, Qinghai Province, China","authors":"Mervin J. Bartholomew, Demin Liu, Andrew M. Mickelson, Lian Brugere, Tammy Rittenour, Guo Q. Sun","doi":"10.1029/2023tc007922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023tc007922","url":null,"abstract":"The Yushu fault, part of the Yushu–Ganzi fault zone, is one of several E-W-trending left-lateral, strike-slip fault zones that extend across the Tibetan Plateau accommodating lateral transfer of crustal material out of the collision zone between the Indian and Eurasian plates. Discontinuous left-lateral surface rupture occurred along WNW-ESE-striking, near-vertical faults during two Mw 6.9 14 April 2010 Yushu earthquakes. Geomorphic and surface-rupture characteristics change at the base of a red cliff separating the Guoqiong and Buqionggei segments. Excavations across these segments near the Jinsha River show: (a) more continuous deposition on the down-dropped side; and (b) how frequently these surface-rupture histories were linked or sequential (<i>major to great</i> earthquakes) versus not linked (<i>moderate/strong to large</i> earthquakes). Trench CUG-2011-1 and roadcut CUG-2012-1 (Guoqiong segment) were on older fan surfaces and Trench CUG-2012-2 (Buqionggei segment) crossed a narrow graben. On the Guoqiong segment, using OxCal v.4.4 that works with IntCal20 database for Bayesian-ordered ages from four <sup>14</sup>C and nine OSL ages, surface ruptures occurred during earthquakes at 2010CE, ∼200BCE, ∼2400BCE, ∼4250BCE, ∼6750BCE, ∼7400BCE and ∼10400BCE consistent with an ∼2200-year Holocene recurrence interval. For the Buqionggei segment, Bayesian-ordered ages from six OSL ages indicate three Holocene surface ruptures occurred at 2010CE, ∼4600BCE and ∼6750BCE. Surface ruptures on both segments (suggesting linked or sequential <i>major to great</i> earthquakes) only occurred two to three times at 2010CE, ∼4500BCE and/or ∼6750BCE. Thus, risk of infrequent <i>major to great</i> Holocene earthquakes is ∼2400–∼8800 years along the Yushu fault.","PeriodicalId":22351,"journal":{"name":"Tectonics","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141551243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonicsPub Date : 2024-06-29DOI: 10.1029/2023tc008185
R. Quiroga, L. Giambiagi, A. Echaurren, J. Mescua, H. Pingel, G. Fuentes, M. Peña, J. Suriano, F. Martínez, C. Mpodozis, M. R. Strecker
{"title":"Boundary Effects of Orogenic Plateaus in the Evolution of the Stress Field: The Southern Puna Study Case (26°30′–27°30′S)","authors":"R. Quiroga, L. Giambiagi, A. Echaurren, J. Mescua, H. Pingel, G. Fuentes, M. Peña, J. Suriano, F. Martínez, C. Mpodozis, M. R. Strecker","doi":"10.1029/2023tc008185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023tc008185","url":null,"abstract":"We present a study in the southern Puna (26°30′–27°30′S), aiming to explore the late Cenozoic evolution of the deformation and the stress field during its uplift. Through U-Pb geochronology, structural observations, paleostress analysis, and balanced cross-sections, we propose an structural evolutionary model over the past 24 million years, separated in four stages: Stage 1, in the late Oligocene to middle Miocene, the region experienced E-W compression. Stage 2, from middle to late Miocene, a transition from predominant compression to an incipient strike-slip regime is observed. Stage 3, from late Miocene to early Pliocene, showed a further shift in the stress field, resulting in a combination of a predominant strike-slip regime, and less predominant compressional regime. Finally, Stage 4, from late Pliocene to Quaternary, featured a dominance of strike-slip regimes. Our results show that the stress field in each stage is associated with the orogen's internal architecture and its evolution. Vertical stress variations are linked to plateau uplift, creating topographic gradients across the orogen. Horizontal rotations of the principal stress axes are caused mainly by an edge effect resulting from the growth of the plateau while it reaches a critical crustal thickness and elevation. This leads to a transfer of compression from high-lying areas to lower regions. The southernmost Puna region shows no significant evidence of normal faulting, suggesting it is not undergoing orogenic collapse associated with a regional tensional stress regime.","PeriodicalId":22351,"journal":{"name":"Tectonics","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonicsPub Date : 2024-06-21DOI: 10.1029/2023tc008219
A. Ceccato, W. M. Behr, A. S. Zappone, L. Tavazzani, A. Giuliani
{"title":"Structural Evolution, Exhumation Rates, and Rheology of the European Crust During Alpine Collision: Constraints From the Rotondo Granite—Gotthard Nappe","authors":"A. Ceccato, W. M. Behr, A. S. Zappone, L. Tavazzani, A. Giuliani","doi":"10.1029/2023tc008219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023tc008219","url":null,"abstract":"The rheology of crystalline units controls the large-scale deformation geometry and dynamics of collisional orogens. Defining a time-constrained rheological evolution of such units may help unravel the details of collisional dynamics. Here, we integrate field analysis, pseudosection calculations and in situ garnet U–Pb and mica Rb–Sr geochronology to define the structural and rheological evolution of the Rotondo granite (Gotthard nappe, Central Alps). We identify a sequence of four (D<sub>1</sub>–D<sub>4</sub>) deformation stages. Pre-collisional D<sub>1</sub> brittle faults developed before Alpine peak metamorphism, which occurred at 34–20 Ma (U–Pb garnet ages) at 590 ± 25°C and 0.9 ± 0.1 GPa. The reactivation of D<sub>1</sub> structures controlled the rheological evolution, from D<sub>2</sub> reverse mylonitic shearing at amphibolite facies (520 ± 40°C and 0.8 ± 0.1 GPa) at 18–20 Ma (white mica Rb–Sr ages), to strike-slip, brittle-ductile shearing at greenschist-facies D<sub>3</sub> (395 ± 25°C and 0.4 ± 0.1 GPa) at 14–15 Ma (white mica and biotite Rb–Sr ages), and then to D<sub>4</sub> strike-slip faulting at shallow conditions. Although highly misoriented for the Alpine collisional stress orientation, D<sub>1</sub> brittle structures controlled the localization of D<sub>2</sub> ductile mylonites accommodating fast (∼3 mm/yr) exhumation rates due to their weak shear strength (<10 MPa). This structural and rheological evolution is common across External Crystalline Massifs (e.g., Aar, Mont Blanc), suggesting that the European upper crust was extremely weak during Alpine collision, its strength controlled by weak ductile shear zones localized on pre-collisional deformation structures, that in turn controlled localized exhumation at the scale of the orogen.","PeriodicalId":22351,"journal":{"name":"Tectonics","volume":"193 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonicsPub Date : 2024-06-21DOI: 10.1029/2023tc008079
J. H. Oldenhage, W. P. Schellart, A. Beniest
{"title":"Cretaceous Crust in the Scotia Sea: Missing Pieces in a Geological Puzzle?","authors":"J. H. Oldenhage, W. P. Schellart, A. Beniest","doi":"10.1029/2023tc008079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023tc008079","url":null,"abstract":"The interplay between regional tectonics and the development of a major ocean gateway between the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean has resulted in numerous paleogeographic reconstruction studies that describe the Cenozoic tectonic history of the Scotia Sea region. Despite the multitude of published tectonic reconstructions and the variety of geological and geophysical data available from the Scotia Sea, the geological history remains ambiguous. We present a comparative paleogeographic analysis of previously published tectonic reconstructions to identify agreements and conflicts between these reconstructions. We propose an alternative model to explain the Cenozoic evolution of the Scotia Sea region. The paleogeographic comparison shows that most reconstructions agree on the tectonic evolution of the South Scotia Ridge and the East Scotia Ridge. Major differences between the reconstructions are the role of the westward subducting plate below the South Sandwich plate, and the age and origin of the Central Scotia Sea. Tectonic reconstructions assume that the Central Scotia Sea is either part of a Cenozoic back-arc basin, or a captured piece of Cretaceous oceanic crust. We propose a new alternative tectonic reconstruction that brings these two prevailing hypotheses elegantly together. Here, we identified new geographical blocks consisting of thinned continental or Cretaceous oceanic fragments that originate from the Paleo-Pacific Weddell Sea gateway from high-resolution bathymetry. These fragments are now part of the Central Scotia Sea and have been affected by early back-arc tectonic activity of the South Sandwich subduction zone, leading locally to the formation of Cenozoic-aged crust in the Central Scotia Sea.","PeriodicalId":22351,"journal":{"name":"Tectonics","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonicsPub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1029/2023tc008148
Max M. Garvue, James A. Spotila, Michele L. Cooke, Elizabeth R. Curtiss
{"title":"What Controls Early Restraining Bend Growth? Structural, Morphometric, and Numerical Modeling Analyses From the Eastern California Shear Zone","authors":"Max M. Garvue, James A. Spotila, Michele L. Cooke, Elizabeth R. Curtiss","doi":"10.1029/2023tc008148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023tc008148","url":null,"abstract":"Restraining bends influence topography, strike-slip evolution, and earthquake rupture dynamics, however the specific factors governing their geometry and development in the crust are not well established. These relationships are challenging to investigate in field examples due to cannibalization and erosion of earlier structures with cumulative strain. To address this knowledge gap, we investigated the structure, morphology, and kinematics of 22 basement-cored restraining bends on low net-slip faults (<10 km) within the southern Eastern California shear zone (SECSZ) via mapping, topographic analyses, and 3D numerical modeling. The bends are self-similar in form with most exhibiting focused relief between high-angle bounding faults with an arrowhead shape in map view and a “whaleback” longitudinal profile. Slight changes in that form occur with increasing size indicating predictable growth that appears to be primarily controlled by local fault geometries (i.e., bifurcation angle), rather than the influence of fault obliquity relative to far-field plate motion, due to inefficient slip-transfer across interconnected irregularly trending closely spaced faults. Modeling results indicate that the self-similar fault-bound geometry of SECSZ restraining bends may arise from elevated shear strain at the outer corners of single transpressional fault bends with increasing cumulative slip. This, in turn, promotes growth of a new fault leading to efficient accommodation of local convergent strain via uplift between bounding faults. Finally, our results indicate that the kilometer-scale restraining bends contribute minimally to regional contraction as they only penetrate the upper third of the seismogenic crust and are therefore also unlikely to impede large earthquake surface ruptures.","PeriodicalId":22351,"journal":{"name":"Tectonics","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141191799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonicsPub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1029/2023tc008078
Wen-Huang Chen, Yi Yan, Andrew Carter, Peter D. Clift, Chi-Yue Huang, Graciano P. Yumul, Carla B. Dimalanta, Jillian Aira S. Gabo-Ratio, Le Zhang, Ming-Huei Wang, Xin-Chang Zhang
{"title":"Evolution of Arc-Continent Collision in the Southeastern Margin of the South China Sea: Insight From the Isugod Basin in Central-Southern Palawan","authors":"Wen-Huang Chen, Yi Yan, Andrew Carter, Peter D. Clift, Chi-Yue Huang, Graciano P. Yumul, Carla B. Dimalanta, Jillian Aira S. Gabo-Ratio, Le Zhang, Ming-Huei Wang, Xin-Chang Zhang","doi":"10.1029/2023tc008078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023tc008078","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of arc-continent collision between the Palawan microcontinental block and the Cagayan Ridge in the southeastern margin of the South China Sea (SCS) is vital to understand how this collision correlated with seafloor spreading of the SCS. To address the evolution of arc-continent collision, we studied the biostratigraphy and provenance of syn-collisional sediments in the Isugod Basin in central-southern Palawan. Microfossil analysis indicates a Late Miocene age (11.5–5.6 Ma) for the Isugod and Alfonso XIII Formations and rapid subsidence during initiation of the basin which may have been triggered by local extensional collapse of the wedge in response to forearc uplift. Multidisciplinary provenance analysis reveals that the Isugod and Alfonso XIII Formations were derived from the Middle Eocene–lower Oligocene Panas-Pandian Formation on the Palawan wedge and the Late Eocene Central Palawan Ophiolite. These results suggest the emergence of both the orogenic wedge and obducted forearc ophiolite at ∼11.5 Ma, implying collision onset before ∼11.5 Ma. The collision initiation in Palawan could be better constrained to ∼18 Ma, based on the drowning of the Nido carbonate platform in the foreland. Therefore, the gravitational collapse of the Palawan wedge and the subsidence/formation of the Isugod Basin might reflect a significant uplift pulse in the hinterland of the wedge beginning within 13.4–11.5 Ma in the late stage of collision. It indicates that although compression originated from spreading of the SCS had ceased at 16–15 Ma, arc-continent collision in Palawan did not stop and was sustained by compression from the upper plate afterward.","PeriodicalId":22351,"journal":{"name":"Tectonics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141191771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonicsPub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1029/2024tc008254
Yazhou Miao, Jian Zhang, Karel Schulmann, Alexandra Guy, Igor Soejono, Yingde Jiang, Min Sun, Shuhui Zhang, Zhiyong Li
{"title":"Switching From Subduction Zone Advance to Retreat Explains the Late Paleozoic Evolution of the East Junggar System, Central Asian Orogenic Belt","authors":"Yazhou Miao, Jian Zhang, Karel Schulmann, Alexandra Guy, Igor Soejono, Yingde Jiang, Min Sun, Shuhui Zhang, Zhiyong Li","doi":"10.1029/2024tc008254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024tc008254","url":null,"abstract":"The geodynamic evolution of the East Junggar is examined by means of satellite imaging and field-based structural studies, U-Pb zircon geochronology and analysis of potential field geophysical data in the Yemaquan arc and the Dulate back-arc systems. The northern Yemaquan arc shows a pervasive WNW–ESE steep S<sub>1</sub> foliation that is related to the exhumation of Armantai ophiolitic mélange in an F<sub>1</sub> antiformal structure. The bedding of the Dulate sequences is folded by N–S-trending F<sub>1</sub> upright folds that are preserved in low strain domains. The timing of D<sub>1</sub> is estimated between 310 and 280 Ma. During D<sub>2</sub>, previously folded Dulate sequences were orthogonally refolded by E–W-trending F<sub>2</sub> upright folds, resulting in Type-1 basin and dome interference pattern and pervasive E–W trending S<sub>2</sub> cleavage zones. The age of D<sub>2</sub> is constrained to be 270–250 Ma based on the dating of syn-tectonic pegmatites and deposition of syn-orogenic sedimentary rocks. The boundary between the Yemaquan arc and Dulate back-arc basin experienced reactivation through D<sub>2</sub> dextral transpressive shear zones. The D<sub>1</sub> fabrics are the consequence of the closure of the Dulate back-arc basin due to the advancing mode of Kalamaili subduction. Almost orthogonal Permian D<sub>2</sub> fabrics were generated by the N–S shortening of the East Junggar and the northward movement of the Junggar Block indenter. This D<sub>2</sub> deformation was associated with the anticlockwise rotation of the southern limb of the Mongolian Orocline, the scissor-like closure of the northerly Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean and the collision of the Mongolian and the Tarim–North China craton collages.","PeriodicalId":22351,"journal":{"name":"Tectonics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141191797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonicsPub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1029/2023tc007963
Kevin P. Furlong, Antonio Villaseñor, Harley M. Benz, Kirsty A. McKenzie
{"title":"Formation and Evolution of the Pacific-North American (San Andreas) Plate Boundary: Constraints From the Crustal Architecture of Northern California","authors":"Kevin P. Furlong, Antonio Villaseñor, Harley M. Benz, Kirsty A. McKenzie","doi":"10.1029/2023tc007963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2023tc007963","url":null,"abstract":"The northward migration of the Mendocino triple junction (MTJ) drives a fundamental plate boundary transformation from convergence to translation; producing a series of strike-slip faults, that become the San Andreas plate boundary. We find that the 3-D structure of the Pacific plate lithosphere in the vicinity of the MTJ controls the location of San Andreas plate boundary formation. At the time of initiation of the Pacific-North America plate boundary (∼30 Ma), the sequential interaction with the western margin of North America of the Pioneer Fracture Zone, soon followed by the Mendocino Fracture Zone, led to the capture of a small segment of partially subducted Farallon lithosphere by the Pacific plate, termed the Pioneer Fragment (PF). Since that time, the PF has translated with the Pacific Plate along the western margin of North America. Recently developed, high-resolution seismic-tomographic imagery of northern California indicates that (a) the PF is extant, occupying the western half of the slab window, immediately south of the MTJ; (b) the eastern edge of the PF lies beneath the newly forming Maacama fault system, which develops to become the locus for the primary plate boundary structure after approximately 6–10 Ma; and (c) the location of the translating PF adjacent to the asthenosphere of the slab window generates a shear zone within and below the crust that develops into the plate boundary faults. As a result, the San Andreas plate boundary forms interior to the western margin of North America, rather than at its western edge.","PeriodicalId":22351,"journal":{"name":"Tectonics","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141191772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}