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Quaternary deformation and stress perturbations along the Digne thrust front, Southwestern Alps

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In the southwestern Alps, the retrogradation of the continental sedimentary wedge that infilled the Valensole foreland basin after the Messinian event, resulted in the deposition of recent (3.4 to 2 Ma) and thick (up to 100 m) conglomerates within canyons in the Digne thrust sheet. Paleostress analysis, in these Upper Pliocene-Quaternary sediments and in a Quaternary terrace, allows characterizing the local Quaternary stress field. This stress. field displays typical stress perturbations (deviation of sigma 1 of up to 53 degrees) along a main dextral fault (Bes fault, 0.7 mm/yr) of the strike-slip edge of the Digne south-verging thrust sheet. We propose a structural model that explains the highest tectonic uplift recorded by the paleo-drainage network (345 m; 0.1 mm/yr) at the northern tip of this dextral fault. We conclude that Messinian-Zanclean canyons allow one to characterize Quaternary geodynamics for deformation rates as low as 0.1 mm/yr. (C) 2012 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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Jean-Claude Hippolyte, Olivier Bellier, Nicolas Espurt. Quaternary deformation and stress perturbations along the Digne thrust front, Southwestern Alps. Comptes Rendus Géoscience, 2012, 344 (3-4), pp.205-213. ⟨10.1016/j.crte.2012.03.002⟩. ⟨hal-01882016⟩
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