Evidence for early miocene wrench faulting in the Marlborough fault system,New Zealand: structural implications |
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| Institution: | 1. Key Lab. of Active Tectonics and Volcano, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100029, China;2. Department of Geography and Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK;1. Department of Well Logging, School of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum (Eastern China), Qingdao, China;2. Department of Geology, Faculty of Natural Science, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran;3. Pars Oil and Gas Company of Iran, Tehran, Iran |
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| Abstract: | In New Zealand, the Marlborough strike-slip faults link the Hikurangi subduction zone to the Alpine fault collision zone. Stratigraphic and structural analysis in the Marlborough region constrain the inception of the current strike-slip tectonics.Six major Neogene basins are investigated. Their infill is composed of marine and freshwater sediments up to 3 km thick; they are characterised by coarse facies derived from the basins bounding relief, high sedimentation rates and asymmetric geometries. Proposed factors that controlled the basins' generation are the initial geometry of the strike-slip faults and the progressive strike-slip motion. Two groups of basins are presented: the early Miocene (23 My) basins were generated under wrench tectonics above releasing-jogs between basement faults. The late Miocene (11 My) basins were initiated by halfgrabens tilted along straighter faults during a transtensive stage. Development of faults during Cretaceous to Oligocene times facilitated the following propagation of wrench tectonics. The Pliocene (5 My) to current increasing convergence has shortened the basins and distorted the Miocene array of faults. This study indicates that the Marlborough Fault System is an old feature that connected part of the Hikurangi margin to the Alpine fault since the subduction and collision initiation. |
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