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Provedor de dados:  ArchiMer
País:  France
Título:  Tectonic inheritance and Pliocene-Pleistocene inversion of the Algerian margin around Algiers: Insights from multibeam and seismic reflection data
Autores:  Strzerzynski, Pierre
Deverchere, Jacques
Cattaneo, Antonio
Domzig, Anne
Yelles, Karim
De Lepinay, Bernard Mercier
Babonneau, Nathalie
Boudiaf, Azzedine
Data:  2010-03
Ano:  2010
Palavras-chave:  Messinian salinity crisis
Western mediterranean sea
Northern algeria
Intraplate deformation
Incipient subduction
Plate kinematics
Salt tectonics
Boundary
Basin
Miocene
Resumo:  The Algerian margin has originated from the opening of the Algerian basin about 25-30 Ma ago. The central margin provides evidence for large-scale normal faults of Oligo-Miocene age, whereas transcurrent tectonics characterizes the western margin. A set of NW-SE oriented dextral transform faults was active during basin opening and divided the 600 km long central margin into segments of similar to 120-150 km. The upper Miocene, Plio-Quaternary, and present-day tectonic setting is, however, compressional and supports the occurrence of a margin inversion, a process still poorly documented worldwide. We show that the central Algerian margin represents a rare example of inverted margin, where the process of subduction inception is particularly well expressed and helps understand how extensional and transtensive structures are involved in margin shortening. Using multibeam bathymetry and multichannel seismic reflection sections from the MAR-ADJA 2003 and 2005 cruises, we evidence Pliocene-Pleistocene shortening with contrasting styles along the margin between west (Khayr Al Din bank) and east (Boumerdes-Dellys margin) of Algiers. Pre-Miocene structures such as basement highs and transform faults appear to control changes of the deformation pattern along this part of the margin, resulting in different widths, geometries, and relative positions of folds and faults. Plio-Quaternary and active blind thrust faults do not reuse Oligo-Miocene normal and transform faults during inversion, but instead grow within the continental margin (as testified for instance by the 21 May 2003 M-w 6.8 Boumerdes-Zemmouri earthquake), at the foot of the continental slope and at the northern sides of basement highs interpreted as stretched continental blocks of the rifted margin. The inherited structures of the margin appear, therefore, to determine this deformation pattern and ultimately the earthquake and tsunami sizes offshore. The complex geometry of the fault system along the Algerian margin suggests a process of initiation of subduction in its central and eastern parts.
Tipo:  Text
Idioma:  Inglês
Identificador:  http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00008/11883/9286.pdf

http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00008/11883/9287.pdf

DOI:10.1029/2009TC002547
Editor:  Amer Geophysical Union
Relação:  http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00008/11883/
Formato:  application/pdf
Fonte:  Tectonics (0278-7407) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2010-03 , Vol. 29 , N. TC2008 , P. 1-22
Direitos:  2010 American Geophysical Union
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