Salt Tectonics & Detachments
Forewords
Evaporites may play an important role in both extensional rift systems and compressional thrust systems in fold and thrust belts all over the World.
In this page I list a number of papers dealing with both thrust detachments (décollements) (Pyrenees, Carpathians, Betics, Makran, Papua New Guinea Zagros in Iran and Kurdistan in Iraq) and salt tectonics and shale tectonics (Atlas, Pyrenees, Iberian Ranges, Dezful embayment in Zagros, Carpathians and Makran).
1992-2020
Detachments, Salt Tectonics and Shale Tectonics Publications
2020
Miravete salt anticline, Iberian Ranges
Vergés, J., Poprawski, Y., Almar, Y., Drzewiecki, P.A., Moragas, M., Bover‐Arnal, T., Macchiavelli, C., Wright, W., Messager, G., Embry, J.-C., Hunt, D., 2020. Tectono‐sedimentary evolution of Jurassic–Cretaceous diapiric structures: Miravete anticline, Maestrat Basin, Spain. Basin Res. doi:10.1111/bre.12447
Link to: Folder kmz (Virtual Fieldtrip on Google Earth) with the geolocation of the main analyzed field localities, geological maps, and cross-sections from the Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of Jurassic-Cretaceous diapiric structures: Miravete anticline, Maestrat Basin, Spain paper published in Basin Research Open Access by the authors.
Assembled by Cristina Martínez & Ylènia Almar.
2018 & previous
Ruh, J. B., Vergés, J., & Burg, J. (2018). Shale-related minibasins atop a massive olistostrome in an active accretionary wedge setting: Two-dimensional numerical modeling applied to the Iranian Makran. Geology, 46(9), 2–5.
Najafi, M., Vergés, J., Etemad-Saeed, N., Karimnejad, H.R., 2018. Folding, thrusting and diapirism: Competing mechanisms for shaping the structure of the north Dezful Embayment, Zagros, Iran. Basin Res. 30, 1200–1229. doi:10.1111/bre.12300
Vergés, J., Moragas, M., Martín-Martín, J.D., Saura, E., Casciello, E., Razin, P., Grelaud, C., Malaval, M., Joussiame, R., Messager, G., Sharp, I., Hunt, D.W., 2017. Salt Tectonics in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, in: Soto, J.I., Flinch, J.F., Tari, G. (Ed.), Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Central Atlantic: Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 563–579.
Salt Tectonics
Moragas, M., Vergés, J., Nalpas, T., Saura, E., Martín-Martín, J. D., Messager, G., & Hunt, D. W. (2017). The impact of syn- and post-extension prograding sedimentation on the development of salt-related rift basins and their inversion: Clues from analogue modelling. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 88, 985–1003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.10.001
Martín-Martín, J. D., Vergés, J., Saura, E., Moragas, M., Messager, G., Baqués, V., … Hunt, D. W. (2017). Diapiric growth within an Early Jurassic rift basin: The Tazoult salt wall (central High Atlas, Morocco). Tectonics, 36(1), 2–32. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016TC004300
Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., & Vergés, J. (2016). Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638–662. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015TC004001
Moragas, M., Vergés, J., Saura, E., Martín-Martín, J.-D., Messager, G., Merino-Tomé, Ó., … Hunt, D. W. (2016). Jurassic rifting to post-rift subsidence analysis in the Central High Atlas and its relation to salt diapirism. Basin Research, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12223
Saura, E., Vergés, J., Martín-Martín, J. D., Messager, G., Moragas, M., Razin, P., … Hunt, D. W. (2014). Syn- to post-rift diapirism and minibasins of the Central High Atlas (Morocco): the changing face of a mountain belt. Journal of the Geological Society, 171(1), 97–105. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2013-079
Detachment Levels
Ford, M., Masini, E., Vergés, J., Pik, R., Ternois, S., Léger, J., Dielforder, A., Frasca, G., Grool, A., Vinciguerra, C., Bernard, T., Angrand, P., Crémades, A., Manatschal, G., Chevrot, S., Jolivet, L., Mouthereau, F., Thinon, I., Calassou, S., 2022. Evolution of a low convergence collisional orogen: a review of Pyrenean orogenesis. BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. 193, 19. doi:10.1051/bsgf/2022018
Le Garzic, E., Vergés, J., Sapin, F., Saura, E., Meresse, F., Chevallier, B., & Ringenbach, J.-C. (2018). Evolution of the NW Zagros Fold-and-Thrust Belt in Iraqi Kurdistan from balanced and restored crustal-scale sections and forward modeling. Tectonics.
Najafi, M., Yassaghi, A., Bahroudi, A., Vergés, J., & Sherkati, S. (2014). Impact of the Late Triassic Dashtak intermediate detachment horizon on anticline geometry in the Central Frontal Fars, SE Zagros Fold Belt, Iran. Marine of Petroleum Geology, 54, 23–36. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.02.010
Gągała, Ł., Vergés, J., Saura, E., Malata, T., Ringenbach, J.-C., Werner, P., & Krzywiec, P. (2012). Architecture and orogenic evolution of the northeastern Outer Carpathians from cross-section balancing and forward modeling. Tectonophysics, 532–535, 223–241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2012.02.014
Vergés, J., Goodarzi, M. G. H., Emami, H., Karpuz, R., Efstathiou, J., & Gillespie, P. (2011). Multiple Detachment Folding in Pusht-e Kuh Arc, Zagros: Role of Mechanical Stratigraphy. AAPG Memoir 94, Chapter 4, 69–94. https://doi.org/10.1306/13251333M942899
Krzywiec, P., & Vergés, J. (2007). Role of the Foredeep Evaporites in Wedge Tectonics and Formation of Triangle Zones: Comparison of the Carpathian and Pyrenean Thrust Fronts. In O. Lacombe, F. Roure, J. Lavé, & J. Vergés (Eds.), Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins (pp. 385–396). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Sans, M., Vergés, J., Gomis, E., Parés, J. M., Schiattarella, M., Travé, A., … Doulcet, A. (2003). Layer parallel shortening in salt-detached folds: constraint on cross-section restoration. Tectonophysics, 372(1–2), 85–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00233-6
Sans, M., Muñoz, J. A., & Vergés, J. (1996). Triangle zone and thrust wedge geometries related to evaporitic horizons (southern Pyrenees). Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 44(2), 375–384.
Sans, M., & Vergés, J. (1995). Fold Development Related to Contractional Salt Tectonics: Southeastern Pyrenean Thrust Front, Spain. In M. P. A. Jackson, D.G. Roberts, and S. Snelson, Eds., Salt Tectonics: A Global Perspective: AAPG Memoir, 65(Chapter 18), 369–378.
Vergés, J., Muñoz, J. A., & Martínez, A. (1992). South Pyrenean fold and thrust belt: The role of foreland evaporitic levels in thrust geometry. In: McClay, K. (Ed.) Thrust Tectonics. Chapman & Hall, London, 255–264.