Microstructures associated with the Sottunga-Jurmo shear zone and their implications for the 1.83-1.79 Ga tectonic development of SW Finland [PDF]
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, 2010 This petrographic study of rock samples from the area of a large-scale shear zone, the Sottung-Jurmo shear zone, in SW Finland, illuminates the thermal development of and strain distribution within the rocks during the last development stages of the ...
T. Torvela, C. Ehlers
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Thrust system, flower structures and transpressive duplexes in Zeidun-Kareim Belt, Central Tectonic Province, Egyptian Nubian Shield (East African Orogen) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsIn this study, we explore thrust system, flower structures and transpressive duplexes in the Zeidun-Kareim belt (ZKB) in the Egyptian Nubian Shield (ENS; northwestern ANS).
Zakaria Hamimi +6 more
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Transition towards plate tectonics tracked in the metamorphic signature of Neoarchean synmagmatic transpression [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSecular mantle cooling has progressively strengthened Earth’s lithosphere, enabling a variety of tectonic styles. The emergence of transpressional orogens in the Neoarchean is interpreted to reflect this strengthening, during a transitional phase leading
Ivan Zibra +4 more
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The tectonic puzzle of the Messina area (Southern Italy): insights from new seismic reflection data. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2012 The Messina Strait, that separates peninsular Italy from Sicily, is one of the most seismically active areas of the Mediterranean. The structure and seismotectonic setting of the region are poorly understood, although the area is highly populated and ...
Doglioni C +10 more
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Lithospheric models supported by the Caribbean and Levant examples help rethink transpression at plate boundaries [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsStrike-slip restraining bends, such as the Levant Fault, belonging to push-up systems and the Jamaican fault network, belonging to duplex systems, display a diversity of fault geometries and deformation patterns that reflect distinct modes of ...
Anthony Jourdon +4 more
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Factors Affecting Transpression Folding as Inferred From Numerical Analysis
Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2007 Three-dimensional folding behavior of an elasto-viscous layer induced by transpression, and biaxial compression on the boundary is studied. The factors studied include the strain rate, elastic competency contrast, and viscous competency contrast.
Fu-Shu Jeng, Cha-Yu Lu, Kuo-Ping Huang
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Detecting a Sinistral Transpressional Deformation Belt in the Zagros
Geosciences, 2021 The oblique collision between the northeastern margin of the Arabian platform and the Iranian microcontinent has led to transpressional deformation in the Zagros orogenic belt in the central part of the Alpine–Himalayan orogenic belt.
Mohammad Ali Ghanbarian +2 more
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The Mid-Albian unconformity, a key to understand the geodynamics of the North Pyrenean Trough
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2023 The Pyrenees are the result of the structural inversion of a rift of general direction N110E, established at the articulation of the European and Iberian plates.
Canérot Joseph, Médiavilla Francis
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BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2022 Based on new structural, petrological and U-Th-Pb geochronological data, a reappraisal of the Variscan tectono-metamorphic history of the Pelvoux Massif (External Crystalline Massif, French Alps) is proposed with the aim to understand the flow pattern ...
Fréville Kévin +7 more
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Transpression and transtension zones [PDF]
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 1998 Abstract Transpression and transtension are strike-slip deformations that deviate from simple shear because of a component of, respectively, shortening or extension orthogonal to the deformation zone. These three-dimensional non-coaxial strains develop principally in response to obliquely convergent or divergent relative motions ...
J. F. Dewey +2 more
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