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Seismic and field evidence for selective inversion of Cretaceous normal faults, Salta rift, northwest Argentina
Authors:Jonas Kley  Eduardo A Rossello  Csar R Monaldi  Bjrn Habighorst
Institution:aInstitut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Jena, Burgweg 11, D-07749 Jena, Germany;bCONICET-Depto. Cs. Geológicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria. 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina;cUniversidad Nacional de Salta-CONICET, Buenos Aires 177, 4400 Salta, Argentina;dGeologisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Kaiserstr. 12, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract:Northwestern Argentina was the site of the continental Salta rift in Cretaceous to Paleogene time. The Salta rift had a complex geometry with several subbasins of different trends and subsidence patterns surrounding a central high. Fault trends in the rift were extremely variable. There is evidence of normal and/or transfer faults trending N, NE, E and SE. It is not clear if all these faults were active at the same time, indicating a poorly defined extension direction, or if they formed in different, non-coaxial extension phases. In either case, their trends were very likely influenced by preexisting fault systems. Beginning in early Eocene time, the rift basins were superseded by Andean foreland basins and later became caught in the Andean thrust deformation propagating eastward, resulting in the inversion of rift faults. Due to their different orientations, not all faults were equally prone to reactivation as thrusts. N to NNE trending faults were apparently most strongly inverted, probably often to a degree where the traces of their normal fault origin have become obliterated. We present seismic evidence of moderately inverted N trending faults in the Tres Cruces basin and field examples of preserved E trending normal faults. However, reactivation sometimes also affects faults trending approximately parallel to the main Neogene shortening direction, indicating short-term deviations from the general pattern of Neogene thrust deformation. These pulses of orogen-parallel contraction may be linked to the intermittent activity of oblique transfer zones.
Keywords:Central Andes  Eastern Cordillera  Tres Cruces basin  Seismic lines  Inversion structures  Transfer zones
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