Syn-kinematic inversion in an intracontinental extensional field? A structural analysis of the Waterberg Thrust, northern Namibia
Granath J, Wanke A, Stollhofen H (2022)
Publication Language: English
Publication Status: Published
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2022
Journal
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Book Volume: 161
Article Number: 104660
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2022.104660
Abstract
A structural analysis of a key area along the Waterberg Thrust in northern Namibia clarifies its geometric and
timing relationships to the deposition of rift-related Karoo sediments. The fault brings late Precambrian crystalline rocks up against Permo-Triassic and Lower Jurassic Karoo clastic sediments of the Waterberg Basin between two of the major regional basement-rooted lineaments that cut across northern Namibia, using those subparallel lineaments as transfer faults. Detailed mapping and kinematic analysis have been used to construct and restore several sections across the thrust that put initiation of reverse offset as a thrust in Triassic time. Thinskinned footwall deformation created several unconformities in a footwall cutoff system. The unconformities were subsequently folded during continued motion on the fault. Various dating techniques constrain the initiation of contractional deformation to the Triassic to Jurassic (Karoo time) with episodic progression during the development of the basin, followed by major further reactivation during regional uplift related to the Atlantic margin rifting and subsequent continental breakup. This early phase is linked in time so closely to the basin development that we attribute the driver of inversion to be kinematically linked to the displacement field of Neoproterozoic basement blocks themselves. Hence, we term this relationship as ‘syn-kinematic’ to distinguish it from wholly external, superimposed driving mechanisms (‘allo-kinematic’).
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APA:
Granath, J., Wanke, A., & Stollhofen, H. (2022). Syn-kinematic inversion in an intracontinental extensional field? A structural analysis of the Waterberg Thrust, northern Namibia. Journal of Structural Geology, 161. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2022.104660
MLA:
Granath, James, Ansgar Wanke, and Harald Stollhofen. "Syn-kinematic inversion in an intracontinental extensional field? A structural analysis of the Waterberg Thrust, northern Namibia." Journal of Structural Geology 161 (2022).
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