Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986e%26psl..80..325c&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 80, Issue 3-4, p. 325-336.
Physics
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Scientific paper
The models of basin development which involve either homogeneous stretching of the whole lithosphere or displacement on a lithospheric-scale shear zone, are but two end members of a range of possible extensional models. The homogeneous extension model thins the lower lithosphere beneath the thinned upper crust and superimposes a thermal subsidence basin on the earlier fault bounded basin. The shear zone model offsets the zone of lower lithospheric stretching and thermal subsidence. It is more likely that the zones of upper and lower lithospheric stretching will be heterogeneous and patchy, but will often overlap in plan view. This will produce localised uplift and subsequent thermal subsidence within the faulted basin and may explain many of the anomalies between the various stretching estimates made using different structural, stratigraphic and geophysical techniques. The model which combines heterogeneous lithospheric stretching and associated simple shear may explain: (1) variations in dip of the major detachment zones in the large basins, (2) variations in types of strain on or beneath the detachment zones, (3) regional uplift of part of a basin, to erode the earlier fault blocks, and (4) the development of volcanism in basins with only low values of upper crustal extension. The zone of stretched lower crust and lithospheric mantle may lie beneath the centre of the zone of upper crustal stretching, or to one side. It may be linked to the upper crustal zone by faults which dip consistently in one direction, or by extensional systems which change their dominant dip direction with depth, pulling out the mid-crust as one or more wedges. Possible examples are discussed from the Basin and Range province and northwest European continental shelf.
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