Geol341-342 Outline Ch. 16 • Extensional Environments • Shape of normal faults Normal Faults –Planar – Listric Extensional Tectonics – Roll-over anticlines • Block rotation • Growth faults • Detachment surfaces • Movie • Analog models
Many diagrams are from Earth Structure, van der Pluijm and Marshak, 2004 2008
Extensional Tectonics Tectonic Settings for Extension
• Divergent plate motions • Gravitational collapse – Over-thickened crust – Continental margins • Salt Domes
Divergent Boundary Normal Faults, rifts Continental Extension
1 Back Arc extension
Rifts Bounded by normal faults
Van der Pluijm and Marshak (2004)
Extension of the lithosphere 1
1300oC
Van der Pluijm and Marshak (2004)
Extension of the lithosphere 2 Lithospheric Extension
•Thinning of the lithosphere •Normal faulting at the surface •High heat flow (rinsing of the isotherms) •Thermal subsidence - > sedimentary basins 1300oC
Van der Pluijm and Marshak (2004)
2 North Sea Norway North Sea Extensional Basin Basin
Scotland Van der Pluijm and Marshak (2004)
Gravitational Collapse of Mt. Basin and Belts Range Province
Weak
Van der Pluijm and Marshak (2004)
New Mountains-Active Fault –Basin and Range Province Two modes of extension
Van der Pluijm and Marshak (2004)
3 Block Rotation Sandbox- Block rotation
Sand above plasticine Van der Pluijm and Marshak (2004)
Listric (curved) Faults- roll over Small roll-overs anticlines
Sedimentation during faulting Curved faults – Block rotation Growth Strata Growth faulting 0
3 km
Animation by R. Allmendinger http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/faculty/RWA/movies/
4 Gulf of Passive Continental Margin Mexico
Gulf of Mexico Salt
Extension Above Salt Diapir Transfer zone in a rift
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