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Development of Detachment Folds on Syn-orogenic Sequences Including Salt Layers
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 77th EAGE Conference and Exhibition - Workshops, Jun 2015, Volume 2015, p.1 - 4
Abstract
Summary
The southern Pyrenean foreland basin is formed by a thick syn-orogenic sequence that includes several evaporitic layers with salt that are involved in the fold-and-thrust belt. The Oliola anticline is a detachment fold probably developed at the southern pinch-out of the syn-orogenic Cardona salt unit that also involves younger syn-contractional evaporitc unit (Barbastro Fm.).
Based on this natural analogue and using an experimental approach (sandbox models) we propose a new kinematic model for the development of detachment folds with multilayered evaporites in the Ebro basin. Analogue modelling of detachment folds suggests a new scenario for diapirs formation in compressional tectonic settings.
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