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DOI | 10.1073/pnas.2001979117 |
Active strike-slip faults and an outer frontal thrust in the Himalayan foreland basin | |
Michael J. Duvall; John W. F. Waldron; Laurent Godin; Yani Najman | |
2020-07-13 | |
发表期刊 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
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出版年 | 2020 |
英文摘要 | The Himalayan foreland basin formed by flexure of the Indian Plate below the advancing orogen. Motion on major thrusts within the orogen has resulted in damaging historical seismicity, whereas south of the Main Frontal Thrust (MFT), the foreland basin is typically portrayed as undeformed. Using two-dimensional seismic reflection data from eastern Nepal, we present evidence of recent deformation propagating >37 km south of the MFT. A system of tear faults at a high angle to the orogen is spatially localized above the Munger-Saharsa basement ridge. A blind thrust fault is interpreted in the subsurface, above the sub-Cenozoic unconformity, bounded by two tear faults. Deformation zones beneath the Bhadrapur topographic high record an incipient tectonic wedge or triangle zone. The faults record the subsurface propagation of the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT) into the foreland basin as an outer frontal thrust, and provide a modern snapshot of the development of tectonic wedges and lateral discontinuities preserved in higher thrust sheets of the Himalaya, and in ancient orogens elsewhere. We estimate a cumulative slip of ∼100 m, accumulated in <0.5 Ma, over a minimum slipped area of ∼780 km2. These observations demonstrate that Himalayan ruptures may pass under the present-day trace of the MFT as blind faults inaccessible to trenching, and that paleoseismic studies may underestimate Holocene convergence. |
领域 | 地球科学 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/284293 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael J. Duvall,John W. F. Waldron,Laurent Godin,et al. Active strike-slip faults and an outer frontal thrust in the Himalayan foreland basin[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science,2020. |
APA | Michael J. Duvall,John W. F. Waldron,Laurent Godin,&Yani Najman.(2020).Active strike-slip faults and an outer frontal thrust in the Himalayan foreland basin.Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. |
MLA | Michael J. Duvall,et al."Active strike-slip faults and an outer frontal thrust in the Himalayan foreland basin".Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2020). |
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