勉略构造带构造变形过程及其地质意义

勉略构造带是印支期华北板块与扬子板块碰撞,并叠加后期陆内变形作用形成的复杂蛇绿构造混杂岩带,勉略构造带的形成演化对全面理解秦岭造山带构造演化具有非常重要的研究意义.本文以勉略构造带广泛发育的褶皱、断裂等构造现象为研究对象,通过详细的构造解析和古应力反演,揭示出勉略构造带经历三期构造变形:D1期变形为NW-SE向挤压,以发育轴面直立的紧闭同斜褶皱和高角度逆断层为特征,形成于早—中三叠世华北与扬子两大块体碰撞阶段;D2期变形为NE-SW向挤压,主要发育左行走滑剪切变形,叠加于早期构造形迹之上,构造带内普遍发育东西向近水平拉伸线理,局部发育倾竖褶皱,形成于晚三叠世—中侏罗世,该阶段秦岭造山带由早期的碰撞转为陆内变形,沿东西向断裂带发生大规模左行走滑;D3期变形为N-S向挤压,在晚侏罗世—白垩纪多向汇聚构造体制下,勉略构造带受南北向挤压,形成一系列共轭剪切断裂,该期断裂切割前两期构造变形,区域上表现为北侧的大巴山、西秦岭向南逆冲推覆,扬子北缘沿米仓山一带向北楔入秦岭造山带,形成向南突出的大巴山弧形逆冲推覆构造带、西秦岭武都-舟曲弧形构造带和一系列北东、南西走向的共轭剪切断裂系.     

扬子板块北缘中段前陆带构造变形特征及意义

扬子板块北缘中段前陆褶皱逆冲带在中生代经历了多期的构造叠加和改造,其复杂的构造样式记录了早期扬子板块与秦岭-大别微板块拼贴碰撞作用以及晚期转入的陆内变形过程。本文在前人研究的基础上通过对扬子板块北缘中段保康-房县地区前陆带构造变形样式及运动学特征的分析,划分出扬子板块北缘前陆褶皱逆冲带的根部、前锋及其内部次级的逆冲推覆构造单元,同时识别出一条过保康-神农架-蒲溪一带近东西走向的左行走滑剪切带,分析表明该左行走滑带形成于扬子板块北缘全面转入陆内变形之后、大巴山大规模向南西逆冲推覆运动之前的中侏罗世到晚侏罗世期间。该左行走滑剪切带对扬子板块相对于华北板块发生顺时针旋转的过程起到了调节作用,对于扬子板块北缘中生代构造演化具有重要意义。     

上扬子地区褶皱-冲断带的运动学特征

上扬子地区褶皱-冲断带的运动学特征一直缺乏系统研究。在前人基础上,结合野外认识、地震地质剖面解释、构造活动定年等相关成果分析认为,上扬子地区印支期以来至少存在着3组不同方向的区域挤压应力。其中,NW-SE向挤压应力具印支期、燕山期与喜马拉雅期多期活动特点,近SN向挤压应力主要在燕山晚期,NE-SW向挤压作用主要发生在喜马拉雅期。由此所形成的造山带至前陆褶皱-冲断带的运动学结构模式存在较大差异,即龙门山造山带发育了较为典型的根带、中带、锋带与外缘带等复杂的逆冲推覆构造系统,米仓山与南大巴山造山带缺乏中带变形的特征,雪峰山陆内前陆盆地系统则表现为逆冲的锋带在倾向上传播距离长、在走向上影响范围大等特点。上扬子地区褶皱-冲断带的运动学特征控制了不同时期油气的运移方向及聚集场所。     

大巴山晚中生代陆内造山构造应力场

位于中上扬子板块北缘的大巴山造山带, 平面上表现为大尺度向南西显著突出的弧形带, 无论在变形样式和形成时间上都明显与秦岭造山带不同。在大巴山构造格架划分和野外构造变形观测基础上, 通过构造解析, 结合年代学研究成果, 重建了大巴山晚中生代独特的构造应力场, 指出大巴山属陆内造山, 形成于J2末, 并持续到K2初期。其构造应力场特征, 以城口－房县断裂为界, 大巴山逆冲推覆带与其前陆冲断褶皱带的特征显著不同。大巴山逆冲推覆带主要表现为NE-SW向构造挤压, 而在大巴山弧形前陆带从西向东, 由近E-W向挤压, 转变为NE-SW向挤压, 最后转变为近S-N向挤压, 构成一向其外缘扩散的放射状构造应力场。总之, 大巴山造山带由推覆体向前陆, 构造挤压作用由北东向南西方向扩散。这期构造挤压作用控制了大巴山造山带陆内变形活动, 导致大巴山由北东向南西的显著缩短, 同时受到其东西两侧基底隆起——神农架－黄陵地块与汉南地块的强烈阻挡, 造就了现今的大巴山前陆弧型构造。其动力学背景可归因于晚中生代东亚板块多向汇聚。大巴山晚中生代陆内造山构造应力场的研究, 对探讨秦岭造山带动力学特征具有科学意义, 为研究川东北油气运聚规律提供了构造地质学依据。     

江南造山带北部早中生代岳阳—赤壁断褶带构造特征及变形机制研究

早中生代(晚印支-早燕山期)岳阳-赤壁断褶带位于江南造山带与中扬子前陆盆地交界地带.作者对该构造带进行了地表地质调查,以此为基础探讨了构造剖面结构及构造变形动力机制.岳阳-赤壁断褶带自南而北可分为岳阳-临湘基底滑脱-逆冲带,桃花泉-肖家湾盖层滑脱褶皱带,以及赤壁-嘉鱼前陆盆地断-褶-盆构造带.岳阳-临湘基底滑脱-逆冲带自南而北依次有郭镇向斜、官山背斜、临湘倒转向斜和聂市背斜,组成隔槽式褶皱组合.褶皱轴面多向南倾,褶皱变形面为南华系盖层与冷家溪群褶皱基底间的角度不整合面和顺界面的滑脱断裂面.桃花泉-肖家湾盖层滑脱褶皱带主要发育轴面南倾倒转褶皱,褶皱波长较小,卷入地层为南华系-志留系以及上石炭统-中三叠统沉积盖层.赤壁-嘉鱼前陆盆地断-褶-盆构造带以南倾蒲圻断裂(江南断裂)为南部边界,发育T3-J2前陆盆地沉积,带内褶皱与断裂卷入地层包括沉积盖层以及T3-J2地层:南部断裂与褶皱轴面南倾.北部轴面近直立.自南西至北东,研究区内构造线走向由EW向渐变为NEE-NE向.上述构造分带及变形特征反映出自南向北的运动指向,表明岳阳-赤壁断褶带具前陆冲断带构造性质.从断裂相关褶皱理论出发,以地表构造特征为依据,厘定了岳阳-赤壁地质剖面结构并进行了变形动力机制分析,认识如下:①自南而北、自下而上的多个滑脱层及其间的南倾逆断裂或断坡(主要为江南断裂)组成近似台阶状的逆冲断裂系统,从总体上控制了构造块体的滑移、逆冲以及相应的构造格架或变形分区.②郭镇向斜为基底滑脱褶皱,官山背斜具滑脱褶皱和断裂传播褶皱双重成因,聂市背斜为断裂转折褶皱;临湘向斜为受两侧背斜控制的被动向斜,由于弯滑褶皱作用在其两翼沿不整合界面形成滑脱断裂.③岳阳-临湘基底滑脱-逆冲带隔槽式褶皱的形成主要受控于褶皱基底的滑脱和基底整体的水平压缩,其形成机制类似于肿缩式褶皱.最后讨论认为湘东北-鄂东南地区不存在大规模、长距离的逆冲推覆构造.     

秦岭南缘大巴山褶皱－冲断推覆构造的特征

秦岭造山带南缘的大巴山巨型逆冲推覆构造主要是在秦岭造山带板块俯冲碰撞造山与中、新生代以来陆内造山过程中长期复合作用形成的。详细的室内外构造研究表明,巴山逆冲推覆构造可以巴山弧形断裂带为界划分为北大巴山逆冲推覆构造和南大巴山逆冲推覆构造。北大巴山自北而南依次由安康－武当推覆体、紫阳－平利推覆体、高桥－镇坪推覆体和高滩推覆体逆冲叠置而成。南大巴山则以镇巴－阳日断裂为界,分为北部的前陆冲断褶皱带和南部的前陆褶皱带。北大巴山主要是印支期碰撞造山作用和燕山期陆内逆冲推覆作用叠加改造的结果,南大巴山则主要是燕山期递进变形过程中的产物。构造变形北强南弱,北以冲断褶皱变形为特征,南以皱褶作用为主;北部褶皱紧闭复杂,向南渐变为宽缓的薄皮构造。逆冲作用在时序上具有由北向南扩展传递的特点。     

南大巴山前陆冲断带构造样式及变形机制分析

大巴山构造带位于秦岭造山带和四川盆地的过渡部位,形成于印支-燕山期,定型于喜山期。按照构造变形样式及其组合特征,从北东向南西可依次划分为北大巴山逆冲推覆构造带、南大巴山前陆褶皱-冲断带(又包括叠瓦断层带、断层-褶皱带和滑脱褶皱带等3个亚带)和四川盆地东北部低缓构造区等3个构造带(区)。南大巴山冲断带地表构造以类侏罗山式褶皱为显著特征,主要发育叠瓦断层系、断层相关褶皱、被动顶板双重构造、反冲断层系和冲起构造等变形样式。北东-南西向挤压应力和滑脱层是控制南大巴山及其前缘构造变形的主要因素,结合区域地质研究成果,建立了南大巴山及其前缘地区依次从震旦系-下寒武统-志留系-中下三叠统逐渐抬高的多层次滑脱前展模式。     

大巴山与雪峰山逆冲构造带J3-K1复合过程的响应———鄂西秭归褶皱带构造样式与形成机制

秭归褶皱带位于大巴山逆冲带与雪峰山逆冲带叠合部位,总体呈现穹窿-盆地型式,是构造复合、联合作用的结果,记录了大巴山逆冲带与雪峰山逆冲带两者相互作用的重要信息,是研究构造复合和联合过程的理想区域。本文通过对秭归褶皱带秭归向斜、巴东复向斜和香龙山背斜的野外调查,对褶皱枢纽、相关断层、节理等进行详细构造解析,理清了先后叠加关系,在此基础上进行了构造分期和配套,对变形期古构造应力场进行了恢复重建。结果表明秭归褶皱带晚侏罗世-早白垩世经历三期构造变形:D1期以近EW向的秭归向斜和香龙山背斜为代表,秭归向斜为轴面近直立的开阔圆弧状,香龙山背斜呈轴面近直立的箱状,相关逆冲断层具由北向南逆冲的特点,可能与大巴山由NE向SW逆冲作用有关。D2期秭归向斜叠加近SN向枢纽,呈锅状,香龙山背斜东段发育鼻状的五龙背斜,褶皱带呈穹窿-盆地型。与向斜相关的水田坝断裂带向SEE逆冲,主压应力场呈NWW-SEE近平行的束状。该期变形可能与雪峰山逆冲带向NW逆冲过程中受到黄陵背斜阻挡有关。D3期秭归向斜近SN向枢纽向南西弯曲,巴东复向斜呈NW凸出弧形,香龙山背斜西端叠加NE-SW向构造形迹。主压应力场总体向NW发散。该期变形可能与雪峰山逆冲带向NW逆冲推挤有关。上述构造分析表明,向SW逆冲的大巴山逆冲带先影响鄂西地区,之后向NW逆冲推挤的雪峰山逆冲带扩展至该地区,形成复合关系。区域构造与地层关系分析表明D1-D3形成于J3-K1,因此秭归褶皱带是大巴山逆冲构造带向SW叠瓦逆冲并与指向NW的雪峰山逆冲带复合叠加的结果,表明上扬子地区在J3-K1经历了分阶段复合叠加的过程,即前期受到大巴山逆冲带近SN构造作用影响,后期经历向NW逆冲推挤的雪峰山逆冲带NW-SE向构造叠加。     

四川盆地盆缘前陆逆冲带的复合与联合扩展研究综述

前陆逆冲带扩展方式是理解造山带生长的关键。四川盆地东缘、北缘和西缘分别发育不同时代和不同构造背景下形成的武陵山-华蓥山、大巴山和龙门山前陆逆冲带,前人对他们的结构和构造运动学进行了详尽的研究。本文在总结这些研究的基础上,揭示武陵山-华蓥山、大巴山和龙门山三条前陆逆冲带的结构分带均表现为从厚皮逆冲构造至薄皮逆冲构造组合的变化,构造解析表明结构分带是断层-褶皱关系主导的指向前陆盆地方向共轴递进扩展作用的结果。同时,在前陆逆冲带扩展分析基础上,总结了四川盆地盆缘共轴扩展、非共轴叠加复合扩展和联合构造扩展三种前陆逆冲带扩展方式。结合阿巴拉契亚、科迪勒拉、阿尔卑斯、喜马拉雅、比利牛斯山等经典造山带前陆逆冲带扩展的研究现状,提出前陆逆冲带扩展研究中存在古构造应力场的σ₂悖论、应力-应变(σ-ε)关系难以建立和系统不平衡等问题,并认为这些问题是未来定量化约束前陆逆冲带扩展,进而解决造山带生长构造动力学研究的主要挑战。     

秦岭造山带大巴山弧形构造带中生代构造变形

大巴山构造带位于秦岭造山带南部,一直被认为是华北、扬子板块碰撞带前陆逆冲 推覆构造带。研究表明,位于城口-房县断裂之南的大巴山弧形构造带,经历了两次明显的叠加变形过程。大巴山弧形构造带由轴向弧形延伸的线状褶皱与弧形弯曲的逆冲断层组成(D2),是南大巴山主期变形产物。弧形构造带西段褶皱轴向为北北西-近南北向,叠加在先前轴向近东西向的开阔宽缓的褶皱(D1)之上,形成典型横跨叠加构造。弧形构造带中段和东段,褶皱轴向逐渐转变为近东西向。构造填图显示,在弧形带形成之前,发生过一期轴向北东到北北东向褶皱为主的变形(D1)。据变形序列、卷入的地层以及区域构造关系判断,西段与中、东段D1变形时代均为晚三叠世-早侏罗世,很可能与华北、扬子的碰撞相关。而相关的地质、同位素年代学及磷灰石裂变径迹资料显示,大巴山弧形构造带主期变形(D2)的变形时代为晚侏罗世-早白垩世(160~110 Ma),所以大巴山弧形构造带记录了两期不同系统构造变形的叠加,这对研究秦岭造山带的演化,具有重要意义。     

Geometric and kinematic analysis of structural elements along north front of Bagharan Kuh Mountain,NE Iran

At the end of the western part of Bagharan Kuh Mountain in the northeast of Iran, mountain growth has been stopped toward the west because of the stress having been consumed by the thrusting movements and region rising instead of shear movement. Chahkand fault zone is situated at the western part of this mountain; this fault zone includes several thrust sheets that caused upper cretaceous ophiolite rocks up to younger units, peridotite exposure and fault related fold developing in the surface. In transverse perpendicular to the mountain toward the north, reduction in the parameters like faults dip, amount of deformation, peridotite outcrops show faults growth sequence and thrust sheets growth from mountain to plain, thus structural vergence is toward the northeast in this fault zone. Deformation in the east part of the region caused fault propagation fold with axial trend of WNW-ESE that is compatible with trending of fault plane. In the middle part, two types of folds is observed; in the first type, folding occurred before faulting and folds was cut by back thrust activity; in the second type, faults activity caused fault related folds with N60-90W axial trend. In order to hanging wall strain balance, back thrusts have been developed in the middle and western part which caused popup and fault bend folds with N20-70E trend. Back thrusts activity formed footwall synclines, micro folds, foliations, and uplift in this part of the region. Kinematic analysis of faults show stress axis σ₁ = N201.6, 7, σ₂ = N292.6, 7.1, σ₃ = N64.8, 79.5; stress axis obtained by fold analysis confirm that minimum stress (σ₃) is close to vertical so it is compatible with fault analysis. Based on the results, deformation in this region is controlled by compressional stress regime. This stress state is consistent with the direction of convergence between the Arabian and Eurasian plates. Also study of transposition, folded veins, different movements on the fault planes and back thrusts confirm the progressive deformation is dominant in this region that it increases from the east to the west.     

云南临沧花岗岩的冲断叠瓦构造与推覆构造

云南省西部沿澜沧江分布的临沧花岗岩,呈SN向延伸,长达500km,但平均宽度只有25km,系逆冲与推覆叠置变形缩短的结果。岩片冲断和推覆的方向普遍为自西向东,临沧花岗岩带向东推覆的距离为30-80km,最大距离120km,冲断叠瓦构造和推覆构造形成的时代主要为中、新生代。糜棱岩的同位素年龄为15.43Ma、25.55Ma和179Ma.新生代沿冲断层发生了近SN向水平走滑运动和沿NE、NW向断层的剪切运动。     

Reverse fault step at Engel Peaks,Antarctic Peninsula

A steep reverse fault at Engel Peaks, Antarctic Peninsula, cuts granophyre and overlying volcanic rocks and incorporates a lower angle zone or ‘fault step’. The reverse fault step differs from the more familiar thrust ramp in that it cuts down-section in the footwall in the direction of tectonic transport. Accommodation of the fault zone to this step and its associated sidewall are discussed with reference to kinematic models for pull-apart zones and for the movement of thrust sheets over non-planar surfaces.During movement on the main fault the step acted as a fault jog and pull-apart zone, preserving cataclasite, breccia and other structures demonstrating a brittle to ductile deformation history. Ultra-fine-grained rock in the step zone is the result of dynamic recrystallization of ultracataclasite. During episodes of brittle slip, the fault step acted as a dilational fault jog between the main steep reverse fault segments.Rotation of mylonite into the reverse fault step and its sidewall involved flexural flow parallel to foliation. Movement of material through the step zone resulted in shear parallel to the base of the step, enhancement of breccia layering, mixing of lithologies and cleavage formation; it also involved extension at a high angle to the main movement direction to accommodate the extra length of the fault zone. Late, steep, reverse fault zones propagating from the main fault folded the breccias in the step and crenulated the earlier cleavage. The fault step was a zone of brittle dilation, hydration, diffusive mass transfer and mineralization.     

川东-鄂西郁江逆冲断层轨迹结构及扩展过程

野外地质调查和剖面测量揭示:郁江断层带的轨迹结构整体上表现为南北分段、东西分带的后展式叠瓦状逆冲断层结构;其中,底板缓倾角逆冲断层多层次(区域尺度、露头尺度和微观尺度)的断坪、断坡轨迹,特别是沿断坡方向的破裂分解,是分支断层呈上叠后展式扩展增殖的基础。根据运动学标志,郁江逆冲断层从北西向南东逆冲,最大断距小于1km,一般断距为10～100m级;后缘高倾角正断层的累计断距与前缘逆冲断距基本对应。结合区域构造分析,郁江逆冲断层轨迹结构定型于燕山期,轨迹扩展过程表现为:上叠分支断层沿底板逆冲断层的断坡方向逐次从前缘向后缘扩展增殖,属于典型的上叠后展式逆冲扩展结构;其中,后缘正断层的形成是断层轨迹结构反馈、运动调整和断层自组织行为的必然结果;而喜马拉雅主期区域应力场的激发,只是强化和加速了后缘正断层的扩展规模和进程。     

淮北夹沟—桃山集地区推覆构造研究

本区存在大型中生代推覆构造,所有震旦纪—古生代的沉积岩层都卷入了褶皱和断裂,构造推覆发生在较高构造部位,属脆性变形域,以台阶状逆断层和断层相关褶皱为特征。区内存在若干推覆构造,每个岩片均可分为上盘、下盘和滑动层系三部分,共查明8个滑动岩系。是一种发生在早中生代的盖层推覆,无根褶皱,也是徐宿地区最重要的控煤构造。最后对推覆构造的地球动力学机制进行了讨论。     

Stretching lineation and transport direction in the Ibero-Armorican arc during the siluro-devonian collision

Abstract

Large structures, lineations, foliations and sense of shear criteria are examined on the scale of the whole Ibero-Armorican Arc. Four sections (Galicia, Brittany-Vendée, Limousin and Eastern Massif Central) exemplify the major thrust sheets observed around the Arc. Stretching lineations are contemporaneous with the siluro-devonian metamorphism and are either transverse, oblique or parallel to the collision zone. A kinematic analysis shows that these lineations have resulted from a dominanüy transverse shear deformation which was followed by, or combined with, a longitudinal shear direction. On the scale of the entire Arc, this variation in the shear direction is interpreted as resulting from an early head on thrusting relative movement evolving to large scale movements parallel to the plate boundaries. Experiments with sand-silicone models support a model which generates the Arc by interaction between a transform sinistral direction, and a converning zone at a high angle to the transform direction.     

郯庐断裂带北段构造特征及构造演化序列

根据大量野外地质调查和盆地地震资料分析,认为郯庐断裂北段在中-新生代发生多期不同性质的活动,形成各具特色的构造变形现象。密山县知一镇敦密断裂韧性剪切带具有左旋走滑特征,其中黑云母~(40)Ar/~(36)Ar-~(39)Ar/~(36)Ar等时线年龄为161±3Ma,是郯庐断裂带被利用发生第二期左旋走滑运动并向北扩展到中国东北-俄罗斯远东地区的产物。四平市叶赫乡佳伊断裂带中负花状断裂形成于早白垩世早中期,是郯庐断裂北段在早白垩世遭受左旋走滑-拉张作用的典型代表。四平市石岭镇佳伊断裂大型走滑-逆冲断褶带、桦甸县敦密断裂"逆地堑"、沈阳-哈尔滨逆冲断裂形成于晚白垩世嫩江运动-晚白垩世末期,这一时期脆性右旋走滑-逆冲事件规模大,影响范围广,导致整个郯庐断裂北段遭受到强烈改造。佳伊断裂带和敦密断裂带中古近纪盆地在横剖面上呈不对称地堑,并且不对称地堑沿断裂带走向发生断、超方向左右变位,是郯庐断裂带北段在古近纪时受右旋走滑、伸展双重机制控制的产物。根据郯庐断裂带北段中-新生代不同地质时期变形特征,建立了郯庐断裂北段构造演化序列。即郯庐断裂北段构造演化分为左旋韧性剪切(J_2末期)、左旋张扭(K_1早中期)、右旋压扭(K_2晚期-末期)、右旋走滑断陷(E)和构造反转(E_3末期)五个阶段。其演化历史主要受控于环太平洋构造域的构造作用。     

苏鲁造山带南缘虎山多期次韧性剪切变形特征研究

从变形机制、力学性质和变质变形矿物世代研究入手,对江苏东北部苏鲁造山带南缘东海虎山多期叠加剪切带进行的研究表明,该区存在三期韧性剪切变形,第一期为滑脱拆离变形,长英质糜棱岩中形成长石拉伸线理,榴辉岩中形成绿辉石、石榴石分异成分层;第二期变形为韧性逆冲,形成蓝晶石、多硅白云母、黝帘石拉伸线理,在榴辉岩中形成石榴石眼球体;第三期变形为韧脆性逆冲构造,形成长英质S—C糜棱岩,具S—C面理和丝带状石英条带,该结论为建立区域构造变形序列提供了依据。     

云南临沧花岗岩的冲断叠瓦构造与推覆构造

 云南省西部沿澜沧江分布的临沧花岗岩,呈SN向延伸,长达500km,但平均宽度只有25km,系逆冲与推覆叠置变形缩短的结果。岩片冲断和推覆的方向普遍为自西向东,临沧花岗岩带向东推覆的距离为30-80km,最大距离120km,冲断叠瓦构造和推覆构造形成的时代主要为中、新生代。糜棱岩的同位素年龄为15.43Ma、25.55Ma和179Ma.新生代沿冲断层发生了近SN向水平走滑运动和沿NE、NW向断层的剪切运动。     

Basement deformation: tertiary folding and fracturing of the Variscan Bielsa granite (Axial zone,central Pyrenees)

The Bielsa thrust sheet is a south-verging unit of the Axial zone in the central Pyrenees. The Bielsa thrust sheet consists predominantly of a Variscan granite unconformably overlain by a thin cover of Triassic and Cretaceous deposits. During the Eocene–Oligocene, Pyrenean compression, displacement of the Bielsa thrust sheet generated a large-scale south-verging monocline. Low temperature deformation of the Bielsa thrust sheet resulted in the development of: (1) E–W trending, asymmetric folds in the Triassic cover with amplitudes up to 1.5 km; these folds of the cover are related with normal and reverse faults in the granite and with rigid-body block rotations. (2) Pervasive fracturing within the Bielsa granite is also attributed to Pyrenean deformation and is consistent with a NNE to ENE shortening direction; two main, conjugate fault systems are associated with this direction of shortening, as is a subvertical strike-slip system with shallow-plunging slickenside lineations and a moderately dipping fault system with reverse movement; and (3) in addition, we recognise strike-slip and reverse shear bands, associated with sericitisation and brittle deformation of quartz and feldspar in the granite, that enclose Triassic rocks. Basement deformation within the Bielsa thrust sheet can be related to movement of faults developed to accommodate internal deformation of the hanging wall. Several models are proposed to account for this deformation during the southward displacement of the thrust.