Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins (eBook)

Preface 5
Acknowledgments 6
Contents 7
The Editors 10
List of Contributors 12
Part I Surficial and Deep Processes in Thrust Belts 21
Coupled Lithosphere- Surface Processes in Collision Context 22
On Some Geometric Prism Asymmetries 60
Part II Exploration of Thrust Belts ( 1) : Seismic Imaging and Traps 80
Understanding Seismic Propagation through Triangle Zones 81
2D Depth Seismic Imaging in the Gaspé Belt, a Structurally Complex Fold and Thrust Belt in the Northern Appalachians, Québec, Canada 93
Part III Exploration of Thrust Belts ( 2) : Fluid Flow and Hydrocarbon Systems 109
Fluid Systems in Foreland Fold-and- Thrust Belts: An Overview from the Southern Pyrenees 110
The Miocene Petroleum System of the Northern Apennines in the Central Po Plain ( Italy) 133
Part IV Structural Modeling / Restoration 148
Folds Kinematics in “Fold-and- Thrust Belts” the “ Hinge Migration” Question, a Review 149
The Use of Surface Restoration in Foothills Exploration: Theory and Application to the Sub- Andean Zone of Bolivia 162
Plate Tectonic Setting and Cenozoic Deformation of Trinidad: Foldbelt Restoration in a Region of Significant Strike- Slip 176
Kinematics of the SE Canadian Fold and Thrust Belt: Implications for the Thermal and Organic Maturation History 192
Part V Zagros/Makran Thrust Belts 216
Early Reactivation of Basement Faults in Central Zagros ( SW Iran): Evidence from Pre-folding Fracture Populations in Asmari Formation and Lower Tertiary Paleogeography 218
Evolution of Maturity in Northern Fars and in the Izeh Zone ( Iranian Zagros) and Link with Hydrocarbon Prospectivity 242
Mechanical Constraints on the Development of the Zagros Folded Belt ( Fars) 260
Rates and Processes of Active Folding Evidenced by Pleistocene Terraces at the Central Zagros Front ( Iran) 280
The Salt Diapirs of the Eastern Fars Province ( Zagros, Iran): A Brief Outline of their Past and Present 301
The Role of Pre-Existing Diapirs in Fold and Thrust Belt Development 321
Impact of Sedimentation on Convergent Margin Tectonics: Example of the Makran Accretionary Prism ( Pakistan) 338
Offshore Frontal Part of the Makran Accretionary Prism: The Chamak Survey ( Pakistan) 362
Part VI Carpathian Thrust Belt 378
The Geometry of the South Leading Carpathian Thrust Line and the Moesia Boundary: The Role of Inherited Structures in Establishing a Transcurent Contact on the Concave Side of the Carpathians 379
Role of the Foredeep Evaporites in Wedge Tectonics and Formation of Triangle Zones: Comparison of the Carpathian and Pyrenean Thrust Fronts 395
Reservoir Properties of Miocene Sandstones in Rzeszow Area ( Carpathian Foredeep, Poland) 407
Relationship between Hydrocarbon Generation and Reservoir Development in the Carpathian Foreland ( Poland) 423
Part VII Tectonics, Sedimentation and Denudation in Thrust Belts 438
Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Sedimentation in Late Miocene Cortemaggiore Wedge- Top Basin ( Northwestern Apennines, Italy) 439
Meso- Cenozoic Evolution of Mountain Range - Intramontane Basin Systems in the Southern Siberian Altai Mountains by Apatite Fission- Track Thermochronology 465
Slab Retreat and Active Shortening along the Central- Northern Apennines 479
Subject Index 496