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Structural records of the Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic extension in Eastern China and the kinematics of the Southern Tan-Lu and Qinling Fault Zone (Anhui and Shaanxi provinces, PR China)

Jacques Louis Mercier
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Pierre Vergely
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Yue Qiao Zhang
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Ming Jin Hou
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Yong Ming Wang
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Our study of the Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic extension in Eastern China is a kinematic analysis of faults (approximate to 1500 striated fault data, 175 stress solutions at 90 sites) that has permitted us to separate stress fields belonging to six tectonic events. A WNW-ESE extension (1) has affected Eastern China from the Campanian to the Late Palaeocene-Early Ypresian. Under this extension, the Qinling (QLFZ) and Southern Tan-Lu (STLFZ) Fault Zones have been dextral transtensional fault zones. A first transpressional event (2) (NNE-SSW shortening) has occurred during the Late Ypresian-Lower Lutetian; the QLFZ and the STLFZ have been dextral transpressional fault zones. A NE-SW extension (3) has affected the Weihe graben during the Palaeogene; after a second transpressional event (4), the NE-SW extension (5) has been rejuvenated during the Late Miocene and the QLFZ has been a normal fault zone again and the STLFZ a sinistral transtensional fault zone; synrift subsidence has occurred in the Weihe graben. The second transpressional event (4) (WNW-ESE shortening) has occurred during the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene, during a period of uplifting and exhumation. At that time, the STLFZ and the QLFZ have become sinistral transpressional fault zones. A period of extension (6) has taken place during the Late Pliocene-Quaternary; the extensional direction has trended approximate to NNW-SSE; during this event, the QLFZ has been a sinistral transtensional fault zone and the STLFZ a dextral transtensional fault zone. These results are compared with those previously published in order to evaluate the regional significance of these tectonic events. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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hal-01882012 , version 1 (26-09-2018)

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Jacques Louis Mercier, Pierre Vergely, Yue Qiao Zhang, Ming Jin Hou, Olivier Bellier, et al.. Structural records of the Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic extension in Eastern China and the kinematics of the Southern Tan-Lu and Qinling Fault Zone (Anhui and Shaanxi provinces, PR China). Tectonophysics, 2013, 582, pp.50-75. ⟨10.1016/j.tecto.2012.09.015⟩. ⟨hal-01882012⟩
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