DOI: 10.1007/s00531-016-1316-1
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84961826928
论文题名: Kinematics of syn- and post-exhumational shear zones at Lago di Cignana (Western Alps, Italy): constraints on the exhumation of Zermatt–Saas (ultra)high-pressure rocks and deformation along the Combin Fault and Dent Blanche Basal Thrust
作者: Kirst F. ; Leiss B.
刊名: International Journal of Earth Sciences
ISSN: 14373254
出版年: 2017
卷: 106, 期: 1 起始页码: 215
结束页码: 236
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Combin Fault
; Dent Blanche Basal Thrust
; Lago di Cignana
; Syn- and post-exhumational deformation
; Western Alps
; Zermatt–Saas zone
Scopus关键词: continental margin
; deformation
; exhumation
; fault zone
; hanging wall
; lower crust
; shear zone
; thrust
; Alps
; Italy
; Lago di Cignana
; Valle d'Aosta
; Western Alps
英文摘要:
Kinematic analyses of shear zones at Lago di Cignana in the Italian Western Alps were used to constrain the structural evolution of units from the Piemont–Ligurian oceanic realm (Zermatt–Saas and Combin zones) and the Adriatic continental margin (Dent Blanche nappe) during Palaeogene syn- and post-exhumational deformation. Exhumation of Zermatt–Saas (U)HP rocks to approximately lower crustal levels at ca. 39 Ma occurred during normal-sense top-(S)E shearing under epidote–amphibolite-facies conditions. Juxtaposition with the overlying Combin zone along the Combin Fault at mid-crustal levels occurred during greenschist-facies normal-sense top-SE shearing at ca. 38 Ma. The scarcity of top-SE kinematic indicators in the hanging wall of the Combin Fault probably resulted from strain localization along the uppermost Zermatt–Saas zone and obliteration by subsequent deformation. A phase of dominant pure shear deformation around 35 Ma affected units in the direct footwall and hanging wall of the Combin Fault. It is interpreted to reflect NW–SE crustal elongation during updoming of the nappe stack as a result of underthrusting of European continental margin units and the onset of continental collision. This phase was partly accompanied and followed by ductile bulk top-NW shearing, especially at higher structural levels, which transitioned into semi-ductile to brittle normal-sense top-NW deformation due to Vanzone phase folding from ca. 32 Ma onwards. Our structural observations suggest that syn-exhumational deformation is partly preserved within units and shear zones exposed at Lago di Cignana but also that the Combin Fault and Dent Blanche Basal Thrust experienced significant post-exhumational deformation reworking and overprinting earlier structures. © 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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作者单位: Steinmann-Institut, University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 169, Bonn, Germany; Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum, University of Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 3, Göttingen, Germany
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Kirst F.,Leiss B.. Kinematics of syn- and post-exhumational shear zones at Lago di Cignana (Western Alps, Italy): constraints on the exhumation of Zermatt–Saas (ultra)high-pressure rocks and deformation along the Combin Fault and Dent Blanche Basal Thrust[J]. International Journal of Earth Sciences,2017-01-01,106(1)