| Abstract: | Orogen-scale d??collements (detachment surfaces) are an enduring subject of investigation by geoscientists. Uncertainties remain as to how crustal convergence processes maintain the stresses necessary for development of low-angle fault surfaces above which huge slabs of rock are transported horizontally for tens to hundreds of kilometers. Seismic reflection profiles from the southern Appalachian crystalline core and several foreland fold-and-thrust belts provide useful comparisons with highresolution shallow-penetration seismic reflection profiles acquired over the frontal zone of the Michigan lobe of the Wisconsinan ice sheet northwest of Chicago, Illinois. These profiles provide images of subhorizontal and overlapping dipping reflections that reveal a ramp-and-flat thrust system developed in poorly consolidated glacial till. The system is rooted in a master d??collement at the top of bedrock. These 2-3 km long images contain analogs of images observed in seismic reflection profiles from orogenic belts, except that the scale of observation in the profiles in glacial materials is two orders of magnitude less. Whereas the d??collement beneath the ice lobe thrust belt lies ???70 m below thrusted anticlines having wavelengths of tens of meters driven by an advancing ice sheet, seismic images from overthrust terranes are related to lithospheric convergence that produces d??collements traceable for thousands of kilometers at depths ranging from a few to over 10 km. Dual vergence or reversals in vergence (retrocharriage) that developed over abrupt changes in depth to the d??collement can be observed at all scales. The strikingly similar images, despite the contrast in scale and driving mechanism, suggest a scale- and driving mechanism-independent behavior for d??collement thrust systems. All these systems initially had the mechanical properties needed to produce very similar geometries with a congressional driving mechanism directed subparallel to Earth‘s surface. Subduction-related accretionary complexes also produce thrust systems with similar geometries in semito unconsolidated materials.?? 2007 The Geological Society of America. All rights reserved. |
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| Citation Author: | McBride, J. H.; Pugin, A. J. M.; Hatcher, Jr. , R. D. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Scale independence of d??collement thrusting; 2007; Conference Paper; Memoir of the Geological Society of America; McBride, J. H.; Pugin, A. J. M.; Hatcher, Jr. , R. D. |
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| Text: | Scale independence of d??collement thrusting; 2007; Conference Paper; Memoir of the Geological Society of America; McBride, J. H.; Pugin, A. J. M.; Hatcher, Jr. , R. D. |
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| URL (DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2007.1200(07) |
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