Publication Date:
2017-04-04
Description:
Stratigraphic, structural, palaeocurrent and palaeomagnetic analyses of Upper Albian
deep-water deposits in and around the Deba block (Northern Iberia) are presented. Results indicate an anticlockwise vertical-axis rotation of this block by 35◦ during a maximum time span of c. 1 Ma
(Late Albian intra-C. auritus ammonite Subzone). This Albian syndepositional block rotation is interpreted to be the consequence of the coeval activity of conjugatemajor sinistral strike-slip faults and minor (antithetic) dextral strike-slip faults, which border the Deba block. On the base of conservative estimations, a minimum block-rotation rate of 35◦ Ma−1 and a sinistral strike-slip rate of 1.2 kmMa−1
are calculated. As a consequence of the interaction of the rotated Deba block with adjacent nonrotated blocks, its corners experienced coeval transpressive (NW and SE corners) and transtensional deformations (SW and, possibly, NE corners). At the transtensional SW corner, two domal highreflective seismic structures have been recorded and interpreted as high-level magmatic laccoliths.
These magmatic intrusions triggered the development of a mineralizing hydrothermal system, which vented to the Late Albian seafloor warm to hot hydrocarbon-rich fluids. Vented hydrocarbon was generated from Albian organic-rich sediments by contact alteration with hydrothermal fluids.
Description:
Published
Description:
986-1001
Description:
2.2. Laboratorio di paleomagnetismo
Description:
JCR Journal
Description:
restricted
Keywords:
block rotation
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palaeocurrent
;
palaeomagnetism
;
Albian
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Basque–Cantabrian Basin
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04. Solid Earth::04.04. Geology::04.04.09. Structural geology
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04. Solid Earth::04.05. Geomagnetism::04.05.06. Paleomagnetism
;
04. Solid Earth::04.07. Tectonophysics::04.07.07. Tectonics
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04. Solid Earth::04.08. Volcanology::04.08.03. Magmas
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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