On the lag time between internal strain and basement involved thrust induced exhumation: The case of the Colombian Eastern Cordillera |
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| Institution: | 1. Brazilian Institute for Space Research-INPE, Rua dos Astronautas 1758–CP 515, 12245-970 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil;2. National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil;3. Universidade Federal do Pará, Centro de Geociências, Belém, PA, Brazil;4. Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland |
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| Abstract: | Thrust sheets accumulate internal strain before they start moving along discrete fault planes. However, there are no previous studies evaluating the time difference between initiation of strain and fault displacement. In this paper we use observations from the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia to evaluate this interval. We utilize multiple thermochronometers and paleothermometers to refine the timing of deformation. Based on these new data we build time-temperature path estimates that together with geometric outcrop-based structural analysis and fluid inclusions allow us to assign relative timing to features associated with strain, such as cleavage, veins and certain types of fractures, and compare that with the timing of thrusting. We find that cleavage was only formed close to maximum paleotemperatures, almost coeval with the onset of thrust-induced denudation by the Late Oligocene. The corresponding structural level of fold-related veins suggest that they were formed later but still when the country rocks were at temperatures higher than 160 °C, mostly during the Early Miocene and still coexisted with the latest stages of cleavage formation. Our data show that the main period of strain hardening was short (probably a few million years) and occurred before first-order basement thrusting was dominant, but was associated with second-order folding. |
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| Keywords: | Strain Cleavage Fractures Thermocronology Thrusting |
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