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| Gallais, Flora; Graindorge, David; Gutscher, Marc-andre; Klaeschen, Dirk. |
| The rollback of a segmented slab of oceanic lithosphere is typically accompanied by vertical lithospheric tear fault(s) along the lateral slab edge(s) and by strike slip movement in the upper plate, defined as a STEP fault (Subduction Tear Edge Propagator). The Neogene evolution of the Central Mediterranean is dominated by the interaction between the slow Africa–Eurasia convergence and the SE-ward rollback of the Ionian slab, that leads to the back-arc opening of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Here, we present post-stack time migrated and pre-stack depth migrated Archimede (1997) multichannel seismic lines, that were acquired offshore eastern Sicily, at the foot of the Malta escarpment. First, we identify the recent deformation along the lateral ramp of the Calabrian... |
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Palavras-chave: Tear fault; Rollback; Accretion; Multi-channel seismic reflection. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00118/22878/21386.pdf |
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| Pinheiro, Joao Marcelo; Schnurle, Philippe; Evain, Mikael; Afilhado, A.; Gallais, Flora; Klingelhoefer, Frauke; Loureiro, Afonso; Fuck, R.; Soares, J.; Cupertino, J. A.; Viana, A.; Rabineau, Marina; Baltzer, Agnes; Benabdellouahed, Massinissa; Dias, N.; Moulin, Maryline; Aslanian, Daniel; Morvan, Laetitia; Maze, Jean-pierre; Pierre, Delphine; Pitel-roudaut, Mathilde; Rio, I; Alves, D.; Barros Junior, P.; Biari, Youssef; Corela, C.; Crozon, Jacques; Duarte, J. L.; Ducatel, Cecile; Falcao, C.; Fernagu, Philippe; Le Piver, David; Mokeddem, Zohra; Pelleau, Pascal; Rigoti, C.; Roest, Walter; Roudaut, Mickael. |
| The structure and nature of the crust underlying the Camamu-Almada-Jequitinhonha-Sergipe-Alagoas basins System, in the NE Brazilian margin, were investigated based on the interpretation of 12 wide-angle seismic profiles acquired during the SALSA (Sergipe ALagoas Seismic Acquisition) experiment in 2014. In this work, we present two 220-km-long NW-SE combined wide-angle and reflection seismic profiles, SL 01 and SL 02, that have been acquired using 15 ocean-bottom-seismometers along each profile, offshore the southern part of the Sergipe Alagoas Basin (SAB), north of the Vaza-Barris Transfer zone. The SL 02 has a 150-km long inland continuation with 20 land-seismic-stations until the Sergipano Fold Belt (SFB). Wide-angle seismic forward modeling allows us to... |
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Palavras-chave: South Atlantic ocean; NE Brazil; Sergipe-Alagoas basin; Passive margins; Wide-angle refraction seismics; Crustal structure; Tectonic inheritance. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00461/57263/59315.pdf |
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| Gallais, Flora; Graindorge, David; Gutscher, Marc-andre. |
| In his Comment, A. Argnani argues that our interpretation of the STEP fault (named STEP-1 fault, in the Comment) is poorly constrained by the seismic data used in Gallais et al. (2013), and he particularly disagrees with our identification north of the Alfeo Seamount. A. Argnani is convinced that the tear fault is expressed by a belt of surface deformation, close to the Malta Escarpment. However, none of the seismic images published by A. Argnani show a crustal scale structure that could be associated with the presence at depth of a lithospheric tear. In that paper we documented the presence of a sub-vertical crustal scale fault, located 50 km east of the Malta Escarpment, with a northward increasing vertical offset (Gallais et al., 2013). The track of... |
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Palavras-chave: Subduction zones; Lithospheric fault; Slab roll-back; Active deformation; Multichannel seismic profiles; Slab tear. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00160/27133/25331.pdf |
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| Gutscher, Marc-andre; Dominguez, Stephane; Mercier De Lepinay, Bernard; Pinheiro, Luis; Gallais, Flora; Babonneau, Nathalie; Cattaneo, Antonio; Le Faou, Yann; Barreca, Giovanni; Micallef, Aaron; Rovere, Marzia. |
| Subduction of a narrow slab of oceanic lithosphere beneath a tightly curved orogenic arc requires the presence of at least one lithospheric scale tear fault. While the Calabrian subduction beneath southern Italy is considered to be the type example of this geodynamic setting, the geometry, kinematics and surface expression of the associated lateral, slab tear fault offshore eastern Sicily remain controversial. Results from a new marine geophysical survey conducted in the Ionian Sea, using high-resolution bathymetry and seismic profiling reveal active faulting at the seafloor within a 140 km long, two-branched fault system near Alfeo Seamount. The previously unidentified 60 km long NW trending North Alfeo Fault system shows primarily strike-slip kinematics... |
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Palavras-chave: Slab tear; Subduction; Mediterranean; Bathymetry; Seismics; Active faults. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00318/42924/42421.pdf |
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| Loureiro, Afonso; Schnurle, Philippe; Klingelhofer, F.; Afilhado, A.; Pinheiro, Joao Marcelo; Evain, Mikael; Gallais, Flora; Dias, N. A.; Rabineau, Marina; Baltzer, Agnes; Benabdellouahed, Massinissa; Soares, J.; Fuck, R.; Cupertino, J. A.; Viana, A.; Matias, L.; Moulin, Maryline; Aslanian, Daniel; Vinicius Aparecido Gomes De Lima, M.. |
| Twelve combined wide-angle refraction and coincident multi-channel seismic profiles were acquired in the Jequitinhonha-Camamu-Almada, Jacuípe, and Sergipe-Alagoas basins, NE Brazil, during the SALSA experiment in 2014. Profiles SL11 and SL12 image the Jequitinhonha basin, perpendicularly to the coast, with 15 and 11 four-channel ocean-bottom seismometers, respectively. Profile SL10 runs parallel to the coast, crossing profiles SL11 and SL12, imaging the proximal Jequitinhonha and Almada basins with 17 ocean-bottom seismometers. Forward modelling, combined with pre-stack depth migration to increase the horizontal resolution of the velocity models, indicates that sediment thickness varies between 3.3 km and 6.2 km in the distal basin. Crustal thickness at... |
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Palavras-chave: NE Brazil; South Atlantic Ocean; Passive margins; Wide-angle refraction seismic; PSDM; Crustal structure; Cretaceous breakup; Lower continental crust. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00428/53928/55054.pdf |
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