Structure and Tertiary tectonic history of the Mulhouse High, Upper Rhine Graben: Block faulting modified by changes in the Alpine stress regime

Rotstein, Y.; Schaming, Marc; Rousse, Stéphane

doi:10.1029/2004tc001654

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“…The shape of the Jura folds on the MH (Rotstein et al 2005) and in the adjacent part of the Jura is more consistent with a N-S trend of the principal stress suggested by Larroque and Laurent (1988), than the present NW-SE trend. We suggest that the present trend is more likely to be the result of a Pliocene-Pleistocene change in the stress regime described by Larroque et al (1987).…”

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“…These differences created changes in the stress regime, as was shown for the eastern Jura and southern Black Forest and attributed to the effect of basement ramps (Becker 1989). Whatever the reason is, the Illfurth Fault appears to be an important feature from its origin in the Eocene-Oligocene, through the Jura tectonic phase and, possibly, in more recent time as a strike slip fault (Rotstein et al 2005).…”

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“…It is also not spatially related to folds in the MH (Fig. 9), argued by Rotstein et al (2005) to be buried Jura folds, and the equivalent structure across the Illfurth Fault is an anticline.…”

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“…This compression appears to be post-rifting, as it affects also the late Oligocene and younger sediments. In addition, Rotstein et al (2005) suggested that the increased erosion of post-rift sediments on the NW part of the MH is the result of a recent uplift of this part of the MH. Based on the base Tertiary depth map (Fig.…”

Section: Rift Period Structuresmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Tertiary tectonics of the Dannemarie Basin, upper Rhine graben, and regional implications

Rotstein

Schaming

Rousse

2005

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Recently released seismic reflection data, together with previous seismic and well data, are used to describe the development of the Dannemarie basin, in the SW end of the Upper Rhine Graben. The Dannemarie Basin was formed during the main rifting phase of the Upper Rhine Graben as an asymmetrical graben trending NE-SW. Post-rift tectonism shifted the depocenter southward and changed the overall shape of the basin. Miocene Jura compression did not result in the formation of folds, as in the adjacent Mulhouse Horst. Strike slip faulting was dominant in the post-rift period and new faults were created, most notably the north trending and transpressional Belfort Fault. The boundary of the Dannemarie Basin with the Vosges Mountains is part of a restraining bend, which may account for the uplift of the southernmost part of the Vosges Mountains.

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Tertiary tectonics of the Dannemarie Basin, upper Rhine graben, and regional implications

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Rousse

2005

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“…Deformation of the Mulhouse High and its sundgau Gravel cover involved the development of several gentle folds (Giamboni et al 2004b) and sinistral reactivation of the Paleogene UrG-related Illfurth fault ( Fig. 2a; Le carlier de Veslud et al 2005;rotstein et al 2005b;Ustaszewski & schmid 2007). the frontal Florimont and réchésy folds of the Ajoie, which also involve the sundgau Gravels, are associated with compressionally reactivated WsW-ENE striking Permo-carboniferous basement faults and, thus, are thick skinned (Giamboni et al 2004b;Ustaszewski et al 2005).…”

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Response of drainage systems to Neogene evolution of the Jura fold-thrust belt and Upper Rhine Graben

Ziegler

Fraefel

2009

Swiss J. Geosci.

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the eastern Jura Mountains consist of the Jura fold-thrust belt and the autochthonous tabular Jura and Vesoul-Montbéliard Plateau. they are drained by the river rhine, which flows into the North sea, and the river Doubs, which flows into the Mediterranean. the internal drainage systems of the Jura fold-thrust belt consist of rivers flowing in synclinal valleys that are linked by river segments cutting orthogonally through anticlines. the latter appear to employ parts of the antecedent Jura Nagelfluh drainage system that had developed in response to Late burdigalian uplift of the Vosgesback Forest Arch, prior to Late Miocene-Pliocene deformation of the Jura fold-thrust belt.the following stages are recognized in the evolution of the Jura Mountain drainage systems: 1) middle to late tortonian (10-7.2 Ma) folding-related overpowering and partial reversal of the south-directed Jura Nagelfluh drainage system, 2) Messinian to early Pliocene (7.2-4.2 Ma) Aare-Danube and protoDoubs stage, 3) early to middle Pliocene (4.2-2.9 Ma) Aare-Doubs stage, 4) late Pliocene to early Quaternary (2.9-1.7 Ma) Aare-rhine and Doubs stage and 5) Quaternary (1.7-0 Ma) Alpine-rhine and Doubs stage.Development of the thin-skinned Jura fold-thrust belt controlled the first three stages of this drainage system evolution, whilst the last two stages were essentially governed by the subsidence of the Upper rhine Graben, which resumed during the late Pliocene. Late Pliocene and Quaternary deep incision of the Aare-rhine/Alpine-rhine and its tributaries in the Jura Mountains and black Forest is mainly attributed to lowering of the erosional base level in the continuously subsiding Upper rhine Graben. Incision of the Doubs and Dessoubre canyons reflects uplift of the Franches-Montagnes and Franche-comté in response to thick-skinned deformation of the Jura fold-thrust belt, which had commenced around 3 Ma.Geodetic data indicate that uplift of the Jura Mountains, relative to the tabular Jura, presently continues at very low strain rates whilst the Upper rhine Graben subsides very slowly and the black Forest is relatively stable. Introductionthe Jura fold-thrust belt (JFtb), forming the core of the Jura Mountains, is the youngest and most external element of the central Alpine orogenic system. It has accounted for up to 30 km of essentially thin-skinned shortening since late Miocene times (Laubscher 1961(Laubscher , 1992Philippe et al. 1996;Affolter & Gratier 2004) and is still seismotectonically active (becker 2000;Lacombe & Mouthereau 2002;Edel et al. 2006). the JFtb is flanked to the sE by the flexural swiss Molasse foreland basin of the Alps whilst its most external elements encroach on the bresse and Upper rhine grabens ( Fig. 1; chauve et al. 1980;Dèzes et al. 2004).Evolution of the JFtb combined with the development of the Upper rhine Graben (UrG) and the bresse Graben, exerted strong control on the location of the repeatedly shifting watersheds between the rivers Danube, Doubs and rhine, which flow into the black sea, the Mediterran...

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The Variscan tectonic inheritance of the Upper Rhine Graben: evidence of reactivations in the Lias, Late Eocene–Oligocene up to the recent

Edel

Schulmann

Rotstein

2006

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Processing of gravity and magnetic maps shows that the basement of the Upper Rhine Graben area is characterized by a series of NE-SW trending discontinuities and elongated structures, identified in outcrops in the Vosges, Black Forest, and the Odenwald Mountains. They form a 40 km wide, N30-40°s triking, sinistral wrench-zone that, in the Visean, shifted the Variscan and pre-Variscan structures by at least 43 km to the NE. Wrenching was associated with emplacement of several generations of plutonic bodies emplaced in the time range 340-325 Ma. The subvertical, NE-SW trending discontinuities in the basement acted as zones of weakness, susceptible to reactivation by subsequent tectonism. The first reactivation, marked by mineralizations and palaeomagnetic overprinting along NE-SW faults of the Vosges Mountains, results from the Liassic NW-SE extension contemporaneous with the break-up of Pangea. The major reactivation occurred during the Late Eocene N-S compression and the Early-Middle Oligocene E-W extension. The NE-SW striking basement discontinuities were successively reactivated as sinistral strike-slip faults, and as oblique normal faults. Elongated depocenters appear to form in association with reactivated Variscan wrench faults. Some of the recent earthquakes are located on NE-SW striking Variscan fault zones, and show sinistral strikeslip focal mechanisms with the same direction, suggesting also present reactivation.

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Structure and Tertiary tectonic history of the Mulhouse High, Upper Rhine Graben: Block faulting modified by changes in the Alpine stress regime

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Tertiary tectonics of the Dannemarie Basin, upper Rhine graben, and regional implications

Tertiary tectonics of the Dannemarie Basin, upper Rhine graben, and regional implications

Response of drainage systems to Neogene evolution of the Jura fold-thrust belt and Upper Rhine Graben

The Variscan tectonic inheritance of the Upper Rhine Graben: evidence of reactivations in the Lias, Late Eocene–Oligocene up to the recent

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