141 results on '"Booth-Rea, Guillermo"'
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102. Structure of the Palomares margin from preliminary results of the TOPOMED-GASSIS seismic survey (Algero-Balearic basin, Western Mediterranean)
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Giaconia, F., Vendrell, M. G., Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Ranero, César R., Gràcia, Eulàlia, Lo Iacono, Claudio, and TOPOMED survey party Team
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European Geosciences Union General Assembly 22-27 April 2012, Vienna, Austria.-- 1 page, We present two deep seismic reflection lines acquired during the TOPOMED-GASSIS seismic survey across the Palomares margin at the northwestern side of the Algero-Balearic basin. Simultaneously 3.5 kHz multi parametric echo-sounder profiles and bathymetric data were acquired, in order to obtain information of the most recent sedimentary/ tectonic records, to relate tectonic structure with seafloor features and find out a possible tectonic control on them. The deep seismic reflection and the 3.5 kHz multi parametric echo-sounder profiles evidence anticlines and synclines affecting the Quaternary sediments. The southeastern limbs of the anticlines are cut by reverse faults suggesting a fault propagation origin for the folds. The recent to present character of these structures is confirmed by the congruence between structural and bathymetric highs and lows. Indeed, the submarine channels that cut across the margin are deflected by the folds flowing parallel to the major synclines, although cutting and incising into one of the anticlines. The folds have a N40-50ºE orientation oblique to the Palomares active N20ºE sinistral strike-slip fault zone. The data obtained from the TOPOMED-GASSIS seismic survey highlight the presence of contractive structures along the Palomares margin oriented perpendicular to the present NW-SE shortening stress field and according with the present GPS geodetic displacements. This preliminary result depicts a contractive Palomares margin where NW-SE shortening is accommodated by Quaternary NE-SW folds and thrusts. In the coastline and on land the shortening is also accommodated by reverse faults that cut both limbs of the Sierra Cabrera anticline. These faults and folds accommodate the sinistral displacement of the more northerly striking Palomares fault zone. Thus, the Palomares fault zone probably terminates close to the coast line to the south of the Vera basin by merging into these more northeasterly oriented structures. These folds probably nucleated upon previous extensional tilted blocks formed during the late Miocene development of the Algero-Balearic basin
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- 2012
103. Drainage evolution above a reverse fault-related fold: quaternary fluvial capture and reorganization of the Medjerda River, Northern Tunisia
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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Generalitat de Catalunya, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Camafort Blanco, Miquel, Pérez, J. Vicente, Melki, F., Ranero, César R., Azañón, José Miguel, Wadday, M., Gràcia, Eulàlia, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Generalitat de Catalunya, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Camafort Blanco, Miquel, Pérez, J. Vicente, Melki, F., Ranero, César R., Azañón, José Miguel, Wadday, M., and Gràcia, Eulàlia
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La evolución del drenaje fluvial en Túnez está influenciado por acortamiento NW-SE reciente que ha favorecido capturas fluviales y una reorganización de la red fluvial. El río Medjerda tiene el área de drenaje más grande de Túnez después de verse incrementada al capturar al rio Tine en el Pleistoceno. Las terrazas fluviales localizadas en el paleovalle del rio Tine han sido plegadas y elevadas sobre un pliegue relacionado con la falla inversa El Alia Tebousouk (ETF). Las terrazas fluviales se plegaron tras desplazarse el rellano de techo sobre una rampa de muro del cabalgamiento. La elevación continuada del valle del rio Tine sobre la ETF favoreció la erosión remontante del río Medjerda creando un drenaje transverso que capturó al rio Tine. Esta captura supuso un importante cambio en la distribución de sedimentos a la costa norte de Túnez, que pasó al Golfo de Túnez en lugar de alimentar el Mar Tirreno a través de los lagos de Ichkeul y Bizerta
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- 2015
104. Aplicación de técnicas morfométricas para analizar la actividad tectónica, volcánica y de deslizamientos en la región central de Costa Rica
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Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Galve, Jorge Pedro, Pérez-Peña, Javier, Alvarado, G. E., Azañón, José Miguel, Mora, M. M., Giaconia, F., Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Becerril, Laura, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Galve, Jorge Pedro, Pérez-Peña, Javier, Alvarado, G. E., Azañón, José Miguel, Mora, M. M., Giaconia, F., Booth-Rea, Guillermo, and Becerril, Laura
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Morphometry is a discipline extensively applied in the landscape analysis of regions affected by active tectonics. Recently, the specific techniques of morphometry have been used for studying the surficial expression of other phenomena such as volcanism and mass movements. We are applying diverse landscape analysis techniques for analyzing the relief morphology in the central region of Costa Rica, a confluence of active tectonics, volcanism and landsliding. The objectives of our project are to better understand the reliability of the morphometry analysis techniques in the mentioned geographical setting, and to provide new information for improving the geological knowledge of the study area. Our preliminary results indicate that landscape analysis techniques have proven be useful in the study area for identifying active tectonic structures and large landslides; and for assisting in geological mapping and for volcanism analysis.
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- 2015
105. Compressional tectonic inversion of the Algero-Balearic basin: Latemost Miocene to present oblique convergence at the Palomares margin (Western Mediterranean)
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Giaconia, Flavio, primary, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, additional, Ranero, César R., additional, Gràcia, Eulàlia, additional, Bartolome, Rafael, additional, Calahorrano, Alcinoe, additional, Lo Iacono, Claudio, additional, Vendrell, Montserrat G., additional, Cameselle, Alejandra L., additional, Costa, Sergio, additional, Gómez de la Peña, Laura, additional, Martínez-Loriente, Sara, additional, Perea, Hector, additional, and Viñas, Marina, additional
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- 2015
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106. Deformation and exhumation of the Ronda continental peridotites
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Précigout, Jacques, Gueydan, Frédéric, Garrido, Carlos J., and Booth-Rea, Guillermo
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- 2009
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107. Crustal types and Tertiary tectonic evolution of the Alborán sea, western Mediterranean
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Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Ranero, César R., Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, Grevemeyer, Ingo, European Commission, Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, CICYT (España), and Repsol
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Multichannel seismic reflection images across the transition between the east Alborán and the Algero-Balearic basins show how crustal thickness decreases from about 5 s two-way traveltime (TWTT, ∼15 km thick) in the west (east Alborán basin) to ∼2 s TWTT typical of oceanic crust (∼6 km thick) in the east (Algero-Balearic basin). We have differentiated three different crustal domains in this transition, mainly on the basis of crustal thickness and seismic signature. Boundaries between the three crustal domains are transitional and lack evidence for major faults. Tilted blocks related to extension are very scarce and all sampled basement outcrops are volcanic, suggesting a strong relationship between magmatism and crustal structure. Stratigraphic correlation of lithoseismic units with sedimentary units of southeastern Betic basins indicates that sediments onlap igneous basement approximately at 12 Ma in the eastern area and at 8 Ma in the western area. Linking seismic crustal structure with magmatic geochemical evidence suggests that the three differentiated crustal domains may represent, from west to east, thin continental crust modified by arc magmatism, magmatic-arc crust, and oceanic crust. Middle to late Miocene arc and oceanic crust formation in the east Alborán and Algero-Balearic basins, respectively, occurred during westward migration of the Gibraltar accretionary wedge and shortening in the Betic-Rif foreland basins. Arc magmatism and associated backarc oceanic crust formation were related to early to middle Miocene subduction and rollback of the Flysch Trough oceanic basement. Subduction of this narrow slab beneath the Alborán basin was coeval with collision of the Alborán domain with the Iberian and African passive margins and subsequent subcontinental-lithosphere edge delamination along the Betic-Rif margins., The research was supported by a grant from the EU large‐facility program to use the IFM‐GEOMAR seismic processing facilities; by the Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain (CICYT) projects REN2001‐3868‐C03MAR, BTE2003‐01699, and CGL2004‐03333; and by the Consolider‐Ingenio 2010 program under project CSD 2006‐00041, Topo‐Iberia. C. R. Ranero has been supported by the project Kaleidoscope from REPSOL‐YPF.
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- 2007
108. Tectónica cenozoica en el dominio cortical de Alborán
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Booth-Rea, Guillermo, García Dueñas, Víctor, Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Geodinámica, and García Dueñas, Victor
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Tectónica ,Fallas (Geología) - Abstract
La Tesis doctoral propone un modelo de evolución tectónica del dominio Cortical de Alborán (DCA), aflorante en la rama norte del Arco de Gibraltar, durante el Cenozoico, haciendo especial énfasis en la geometría, cinemática y cronología de las estructuras formadas en ese período de tiempo y difereciando los episodios tectónicos más relevantes. Para esto se han seleccionado, para su estudio, tres áreas emergidas representativas de distintas posiciones estructurales del Dominio Cortical de Alborán, poco estudiadas previamente, y con una cobertera sedimentaria que permitiese establecer la relación tectónica entre las estructuras que afectan al DCA y la geometría del relleno sedimentario. Además se ha determinado la estructura, mediante el procesado e interpretación de los perfiles sísmicos de reflexión profunda ESCI Alb 2b y 2c, de un área sumergida, representativa de la transición entre corteza continental adelgazada, constituida por rocas del DCA y volcánicas, y corteza oceánica de las cuencas de Alborán y Surbalear respectivamente. Las áreas emergidas seleccionadas han sido las siguientes: Un sector de las Béticas occidentales, situado al W del meridiano de Málaga y que incluye la cuenca de la Hoya de Málaga y las sierras de la Axarquía occidental, constituidas por rocas del Dominio Cortical de Alborán. En este área se han diferenciado dos sistemas extensionales con transporte tectónico hacia el SSW y NNW responsables del adelgazamiento del Dominio Cortical de Alborán hasta constituir el basamento de la Hoya de Málaga, especialmente subsidente durante el Mioceno inferior. Se ha seleccionado un área representativa de las Béticas nororientales que incluye a la Cuenca de Lorca y los relieves que la circundan, correspondientes a las sierras de las Estancias, de la Tercia y de Espuña. En este sector se ha estudiado la evolución tectonometamórfica de unidades del Dominio Cortical de Alborán, así como las estructuras frágiles que constituyen los contactos entre unidades, interpretados como al menos dos sistemas de fallas normales de bajo ángulo, y la relación entre estas estructuras y el relleno sedimentario de la Cuenca de Lorca. En esta área además se ha prestado una atención especial a estructuras relacionadas con la emersión de la Cuenca de Lorca como son pliegues y fallas transcurrentes activas durante el Neógeno superior-Cuaternario. El tercer área estudiada se encuentra en las Béticas surorientales al este del meridiano de Carboneras y al sur del pueblo de Águilas. Esta área incluye a la Cuenca de Vera y las sierras que la rodean, y en ella se ha determinado la evolución tectonometamórfica de algunas de las Unidades del Dominio de Alborán que constituyen el basamento de la Cuenca de Vera, en concreto del Complejo Alpujárride y de la Unidad de Almagro. Con los datos obtenidos en estas áreas se ha propuesto un modelo de evolución tectónica para el Dominio Cortical de Alborán, diferenciando los eventos tectónicos principales, que se resumen a continuación: Evento D1 de subducción del Complejo Alpujárride bajo el Malaguide, produciendo metamorfismo de baja gradiente en las unidades basales del Complejo Malaguide y en el Alpujárride, donde se encuentran asociaciones minerales de alta presión, como Mg-carfolita+clorita+pirofilita o distena. Evento D2 de aplastamiento dúctil del Complejo Alpujárride con un factor B cercano a 3, dando lugar a la formación de la foliación principal del complejo Alpujárride, coetáneamente a procesos extensionales frágiles en el Complejo Malaguide. Evento D3 contractivo durante el cual se producen pliegues recumbentes y cabalgamientos postmetamórficos que dan lugar a inversiones y recurrencias en el grado metamórfico, además de la imbricación intracortical de los perioditas de Ronda. En las áreas estudiadas este evento es especialmente manifiesto en la de Vera. Este evento habría dado lugar a la configuración definitiva del Dominio Cortical de Alborán. Evento D4 de rifting del Dominio Cortical de Alborán durante el Mioceno inferior y medio para dar lugar a la Cuenca de Alborán miocena, coetáneamente a la formación y migración hacia el W del Arco de Gibraltar. Relacionados con este evento se han diferenciado al menos dos sistemas extensionales frágiles con direcciones de extensión transversas en todas las áreas estudiadas. Evento D5, durante el Tortoniense se produce un evento contractivo que da lugar a la formación de grandes pliegues de dirección grosera E-W, que exhuman a los sistemas extensionales anteriores. Durante este evento se inicia la emersión de gran parte de las Cuenca de Alborán miocena, dando lugar a una discordancia erosiva denominada "intratortoniense". Evento D6, durante el Tortoniense superior se produce una cierta subsidencia y aumento de los depocentros sedimentarios a favor de fallas normales de alto ángulo con direcciones variadas. Evento D7, desde el Tortoniense terminal hasta el Cuaternario domina la tectónica transcurrente, Tesis Univ. de Granada. Departamento de Geodinámica. Leída 13 de septiembre de 2001
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109. The West Melilla cold water coral mounds, Eastern Alboran Sea: Morphological characterization and environmental context
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Lo Iacono, Claudio, Gràcia, Eulàlia, Ranero, Cesar R., Emelianov, Mikhail, Huvenne, Veerle A.I., Bartolomé, Rafael, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Prades, Javier, Lo Iacono, Claudio, Gràcia, Eulàlia, Ranero, Cesar R., Emelianov, Mikhail, Huvenne, Veerle A.I., Bartolomé, Rafael, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, and Prades, Javier
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A new mound field, the West Melilla mounds, interpreted as being cold-water coral mounds, has been recently unveiled along the upper slope of the Mediterranean Moroccan continental margin, a few kilometers west of the Cape Tres Forcas. This study is based on the integration of high-resolution geophysical data (swath bathymetry, parametric sub-bottom profiler), CTD casts, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), ROV video and seafloor sampling, acquired during the TOPOMED GASSIS (2011) and MELCOR (2012) cruises. Up to 103 mounds organized in two main clusters have been recognized in a depth range of 299–590 m, displaying a high density of 5 mounds/km2. Mounds, 1–48 m high above the surrounding seafloor and on average 260 m wide, are actually buried by a 1–12 m thick fine-grained sediment blanket. Seismic data suggest that the West Melilla mounds grew throughout the Early Pleistocene–Holocene, settling on erosive unconformities and mass movement deposits. During the last glacial–interglacial transition, the West Melilla mounds may have suffered a drastic change of the local sedimentary regime during the late Holocene and, unable to stand increasing depositional rates, were progressively buried. At the present day, temperature and salinity values on the West Melilla mounds suggest a plausible oceanographic setting, suitable for live CWCs. Nonetheless, more data is required to groundtruth the West Melilla mounds and better constrain the interplay of sedimentary and oceanographic factors during the evolution of the West Melilla mounds.
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- 2014
110. Evidence of extensional metamorphism associated to Cretaceous rifting of the North-Maghrebian passive margin: the Tanger-Ketama Unit (External Rif, northern Morocco)
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Vázquez Vílchez, María Mercedes, Asebriy, L., Booth Rea, Guillermo, Mellini, M., González Lodeiro, Francisco, Azdimousa, A., Jabaloy Sánchez, Antonio, Barbero González, Luis C., Vázquez Vílchez, María Mercedes, Asebriy, L., Booth Rea, Guillermo, Mellini, M., González Lodeiro, Francisco, Azdimousa, A., Jabaloy Sánchez, Antonio, and Barbero González, Luis C.
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111. Backarc basin inversion and subcontinental mantle emplacement in the crust: Kilometre-scale folding and shearing at the base of the proto-alborn lithospheric mantle (Betic Cordillera, southern Spain)
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Hidas, Karoly, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Garrido, Carlos J, Martinez-Martinez, Jose Miguel, Padron-Navarta, Jose, Konc, Zoltan, Giaconia, Flavio, Frets, Erwin, Marchesi, C, Hidas, Karoly, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Garrido, Carlos J, Martinez-Martinez, Jose Miguel, Padron-Navarta, Jose, Konc, Zoltan, Giaconia, Flavio, Frets, Erwin, and Marchesi, C
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To constrain the latest evolutionary stages and mechanisms of exhumation and emplacement of subcontinental peridotites in the westernmost Mediterranean, we present here a detailed structural study of the transition from granular spinel peridotite to plagioclase tectonite in the western Ronda Peridotite (Betic Cordillera, southern Spain). We show that the plagioclase tectonite foliation represents an axial surface particularly well developed in the reverse limb of a downward facing moderately plunging and moderately inclined synform at the base of the Ronda massif. The fold limbs are cut by several mylonitic and ultramylonitic shear zones with top-to-the-SW sense of shear. After restoring the middle to late Miocene vertical-axis palaeomag-netic rotation and the early Miocene tectonic tilting of the massif, these studied structures record southward-directed kinematics. We propose a geodynamic model in which folding and shearing of an attenuated mantle lithosphere occurred by backarc basin inversion during late Oligocene (23-25 Ma) southward collision of the Alboran Domain with the palaeo-Maghrebian passive margin, leading to the intracrustal emplacement of peridotites in the earliest Miocene (21-23 Ma).
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- 2013
112. Late Miocene east- to southeast-directed extension in the Betics and its role in the development of the Algero-Balearic basin (Southeastern Betics)
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Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Giaconia, F., Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, Azañón, José Miguel, Ranero, César R., Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Giaconia, F., Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, Azañón, José Miguel, and Ranero, César R.
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Late Miocene extension in the eastern Betics has normally been interpreted as related to local transtensional settings in a general context of continental transcurrent and contractive tectonics. Here we show for the first time the presence of low-angle brittle extensional detachments and associated listric faults produced during Middle Miocene to Tortonian large-scale upper crustal extension. The main detachment shows low-angle ramp geometry and cuts down into the Nevado-Filabride complex exhuming graphite schist of the Calar-Alto HP/LT unit in the Lomo de Bas mountain range. Strongly tilted rocks of the Maláguide, Alpujárride and Nevado-Filabride complexes form the hanging-wall of the detachment. These rocks are cut by a system of high-angle normal faults with SE to ESE shear sense that bound the southeastern hillslopes of the main mountain ranges in the southeastern Betics. The normal faults cut Tortonian marine sediments, producing syndepositional progressive unconformities typical of synrift sedimentary sequences. There is strong time and space correlation between upper-crustal extension and the emplacement of Si-K rich dacitic volcanic and subvolcanic rocks that locally intrude the fault zones. The extensional system is locally segmented by WNW-ESE strike-slip transfer faults like the dextral Moreras fault in the Mazarrón basin. Extension seems to have propagated from east to west where the younger syndepositional sediments occur. Extensional faults at the western end of the Algero-Balearic back-arc basin show an eastward component of extension, observed on deep seismic reflection lines and share the activity timing with the onshore structures described above. Thus, the transition between the Algero-Balearic oceanic crust and the southeastern continental Betic margin that occurs abruptly along the E-W Mazarrón escarpment might be characterized by a sinistral transform fault system. Coeval extension in the adjacent oceanic and continental domains probably occurr
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- 2012
113. Seismotectonics and Seismic Structure of the Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean ¿ Constraints from Local Earthquake Monitoring and Seismic Refraction and Wide-Angle Profiling.
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Leuchters, W., Grevemeyer, Ingo, Ranero, César R., Villaseñor, Antonio, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Gallart Muset, Josep, Leuchters, W., Grevemeyer, Ingo, Ranero, César R., Villaseñor, Antonio, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, and Gallart Muset, Josep
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The Alboran Basin is located in the western-most Mediterranean Sea and is surrounded by the Gibraltar-Betic and Rif orogenic arc. Geological evidence suggests that the most important phase of formation started in the early-to-mid-Miocene. Currently two conflicting models are discussed for its formation: One model proposes contractive tectonics producing strike-slip faults and folds with sedimentation occurring in synclinal basins and in regions of subsidiary extension in transtensional fault segments. A second model proposes slab roll back that caused contraction at the front of the arc and coeval overriding plate bending and extension and associated arc magmatism. However, this phase has been partially masked by late Miocene to present contractive structures, caused by the convergence of Africa and Iberia. Two German/Spanish collaborative research projects provided excellent new seismological and seismic data. Onshore/offshore earthquake monitoring received a wealth of local earthquake data to study seismotectonics and yielded the average 1D velocity structure of the Alboran/Betics/Rif domain. In the Alboran Basin most earthquakes occur below 20 km along a diffuse fault zone, crossing the Alboran Sea from the Moroccan to the Spanish coast. Further, earthquakes along the northern portion of the Alboran Ridge show thrust mechanisms and compression roughly normal to the vector of plate convergence between Africa and Iberia. A 250 km long seismic refraction and wide-angle profile was acquired coincident with the existing multi-channel seismic (MCS) ESCI-Alb2 line using the German research vessel Meteor. Shots fired with a 64-litre airgun array were recorded on 24 ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) and ocean-bottom hydrophone (OBH) stations. The profile run roughly along the axis of the basin, circa 65 km off the coast of Morocco, north of the Alboran Ridge. It continues in an ENE direction to end north of the Algeria coast. Using seismic tomography we mapped the crustal an
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114. Seismic constraints on the nature of crust in the Algerian-Balearic Basin – implications for lithospheric construction at back-arc spreading centres
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Grevemeyer, Ingo, Ranero, César R., Leuchters, Wiebke, Pesquer, David, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Gallart, Josep, Grevemeyer, Ingo, Ranero, César R., Leuchters, Wiebke, Pesquer, David, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, and Gallart, Josep
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- 2011
115. Seismic activity at Cadamosto seamount near Fogo Island, Cape Verdes - formation of a new ocean island?
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Grevemeyer, Ingo, Helffrich, George, Faria, Bruno, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Schnabel, Michael, Weinrebe, Reimer Wilhelm, Grevemeyer, Ingo, Helffrich, George, Faria, Bruno, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Schnabel, Michael, and Weinrebe, Reimer Wilhelm
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- 2010
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116. The West Melilla cold water coral mounds, Eastern Alboran Sea: Morphological characterization and environmental context
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Lo Iacono, Claudio, primary, Gràcia, Eulàlia, additional, Ranero, Cesar R., additional, Emelianov, Mikhail, additional, Huvenne, Veerle A.I., additional, Bartolomé, Rafael, additional, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, additional, Prades, Javier, additional, Ambroso, Stefano, additional, Dominguez, Carlos, additional, Grinyó, Jordi, additional, Rubio, Eduardo, additional, and Torrent, Josep, additional
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- 2014
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117. Crustal types and Tertiary tectonic evolution of the Alborán sea, western Mediterranean
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European Commission, Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, CICYT (España), Repsol, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Ranero, César R., Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, Grevemeyer, Ingo, European Commission, Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, CICYT (España), Repsol, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Ranero, César R., Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, and Grevemeyer, Ingo
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Multichannel seismic reflection images across the transition between the east Alborán and the Algero-Balearic basins show how crustal thickness decreases from about 5 s two-way traveltime (TWTT, ∼15 km thick) in the west (east Alborán basin) to ∼2 s TWTT typical of oceanic crust (∼6 km thick) in the east (Algero-Balearic basin). We have differentiated three different crustal domains in this transition, mainly on the basis of crustal thickness and seismic signature. Boundaries between the three crustal domains are transitional and lack evidence for major faults. Tilted blocks related to extension are very scarce and all sampled basement outcrops are volcanic, suggesting a strong relationship between magmatism and crustal structure. Stratigraphic correlation of lithoseismic units with sedimentary units of southeastern Betic basins indicates that sediments onlap igneous basement approximately at 12 Ma in the eastern area and at 8 Ma in the western area. Linking seismic crustal structure with magmatic geochemical evidence suggests that the three differentiated crustal domains may represent, from west to east, thin continental crust modified by arc magmatism, magmatic-arc crust, and oceanic crust. Middle to late Miocene arc and oceanic crust formation in the east Alborán and Algero-Balearic basins, respectively, occurred during westward migration of the Gibraltar accretionary wedge and shortening in the Betic-Rif foreland basins. Arc magmatism and associated backarc oceanic crust formation were related to early to middle Miocene subduction and rollback of the Flysch Trough oceanic basement. Subduction of this narrow slab beneath the Alborán basin was coeval with collision of the Alborán domain with the Iberian and African passive margins and subsequent subcontinental-lithosphere edge delamination along the Betic-Rif margins.
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- 2007
118. Backarc basin inversion and subcontinental mantle emplacement in the crust: kilometre-scale folding and shearing at the base of the proto-Alborán lithospheric mantle (Betic Cordillera, southern Spain)
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Hidas, Károly, primary, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, additional, Garrido, Carlos J., additional, Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, additional, Padrón-Navarta, José Alberto, additional, Konc, Zoltán, additional, Giaconia, Flavio, additional, Frets, Erwin, additional, and Marchesi, Claudio, additional
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- 2013
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119. Contrasting structural and P-T evolution of tectonic units in the southeastern Betics: Key for understanding the exhumation of the Alboran Domain HP/LT crustal rocks (western Mediterranean)
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Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Azañón, José Miguel, Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, Vidal, O., García-Dueñas, Víctor, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Azañón, José Miguel, Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, Vidal, O., and García-Dueñas, Víctor
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Thermobarometry using mica-chlorite local equilibria and structural analysis of three tectonic units of the Alpujarride complex in the southeastern Betics indicate that rocks that underwent low-pressure/low-temperature metamorphism are found below higher-grade blueschist facies rocks. Moreover, the high-pressure/low-temperature (HP/LT) units underwent contrasting (P-T) and structural evolutions. The structurally highest unit was exhumed in a typical postorogenic high-temperature geothermal context in the andalusite stability field, while the intermediate unit was exhumed following a cooling and decompression P-T path within the kyanite stability field. The superposition of the three units occurred during the lower Miocene related with north directed brittle-ductile shear zones and associated north vergent overturned folds, after postorogenic exhumation of the top unit. The coexistence of thrusting with lower and middle Miocene brittle extensional systems active in shallower levels of the Alboran orogenic wedge implies that extension was synorogenic. These data strengthen the hypothesis that rocks thinned by postorogenic extension during the latest Oligocene and lower Miocene were entrained in the lower to middle Miocene Alboran orogenic wedge.
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- 2005
120. Upper-crustal extension during oblique collision: the Temsamane extensional detachment (eastern Rif, Morocco)
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Booth-Rea, Guillermo, primary, Jabaloy-Sánchez, Antonio, additional, Azdimousa, Ali, additional, Asebriy, Lahcen, additional, Vílchez, Mercedes Vázquez, additional, and Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, additional
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- 2012
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121. Small-scale faulting, topographic steps and seismic risk in the Alhambra (Grenada, SE Spain)
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Azanon, J. M., Azor, A., Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Torcal, F., Azanon, J. M., Azor, A., Booth-Rea, Guillermo, and Torcal, F.
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The Alhambra (14th century AD) in Granada (southeast Spain) is built at the summit of a Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene conglomeratic formation. Tens of small-scale normal faults crop out along the northern hillslope of the Alhambra, which have a N130–N150°E strike, dipping 65–75° mostly to the southwest. These are closely spaced faults (approximately 5–30 m) with centimetre to several metre displacements. Several topographic steps in this area coincide with hectometre- to kilometre-scale faults with the same kinematics as the small-scale ones. Some of these faults appear to be active and related to the present seismicity detected in this region, and associated with the cracks and other damage observed in the Alhambra. Several focal mechanisms calculated in this study are in accordance with the dominant NW–SE orientated normal faults. We interpret that the topographic steps of these faults are a consequence of repeated earthquakes during the past 800 ka. The last large earthquake of approximately 5.1 magnitude in this area occurred in 1431, destroying the Alixares Palace, the Arabian fence and part of the Alhambra wall. We consider the seismic risk associated with these faults to be moderate, as the displacement is partitioned into several hectometre- to kilometre-scale faults.
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122. Small-scale faulting, topographic steps and seismic ruptures in the Alhambra (Granada, southeast Spain)
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Azañón, José Miguel, Azor, Antonio, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Torcal, Federico, Azañón, José Miguel, Azor, Antonio, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, and Torcal, Federico
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The Alhambra (14th century AD) in Granada (southeast Spain) is built at the summit of a Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene conglomeratic formation. Tens of small-scale normal faults crop out along the northern hillslope of the Alhambra, which have a N130-N150°E strike, dipping 65-75° mostly to the southwest. These are closely spaced faults (approximately 5-30 m) with centimetre to several metre displacements. Several topographic steps in this area coincide with hectometre- to kilometre-scale faults with the same kinematics as the small-scale ones. Some of these faults appear to be active and related to the present seismicity detected in this region, and associated with the cracks and other damage observed in the Alhambra. Several focal mechanisms calculated in this study are in accordance with the dominant NW-SE orientated normal faults. We interpret that the topographic steps of these faults are a consequence of repeated earthquakes during the past 800 ka. The last large earthquake of approximately 5.1 magnitude in this area occurred in 1431, destroying the Alixares Palace, the Arabian fence and part of the Alhambra wall. We consider the seismic risk associated with these faults to be moderate, as the displacement is partitioned into several hectometre- to kilometre-scale faults.
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- 2004
123. Morfometría de la red de drenaje, tectónica activa y sismicidad instrumental en el borde occidental de Sierra Nevada (Cordilleras Béticas)
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Azañól, J. M., Azor, A., Pérez-Peña, V., Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Rodríguez-Fernández, J., Delgado, J., Carrillo, J. M., Torcal, F., Azañól, J. M., Azor, A., Pérez-Peña, V., Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Rodríguez-Fernández, J., Delgado, J., Carrillo, J. M., and Torcal, F.
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- 2004
124. Garnet lherzolite and garnet-spinel mylonite in the Ronda peridotite: Vestiges of Oligocene backarc mantle lithospheric extension in the western Mediterranean
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Garrido, Carlos J., primary, Gueydan, Frédéric, additional, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, additional, Precigout, Jacques, additional, Hidas, Karoly, additional, Padrón-Navarta, José A., additional, and Marchesi, Claudio, additional
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- 2011
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125. Seismic activity at Cadamosto seamount near Fogo Island, Cape Verdes-formation of a new ocean island?
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Grevemeyer, Ingo, primary, Helffrich, George, additional, Faria, Bruno, additional, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, additional, Schnabel, Michael, additional, and Weinrebe, Wilhelm, additional
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- 2010
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126. Exhumation constraints for the lower Nevado-Filabride Complex (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain): a Raman thermometry and Tweequ multiequilibrium thermobarometry approach
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Augier, Romain, primary, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, primary, Agard, Phillipe, primary, Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, primary, Jolivet, Laurent, primary, and Azañón, José Miguel, primary
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- 2005
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127. Metallogenic Evolution Related to Mantle Delamination Under Northern Tunisia.
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Jemmali, Nejib, Souissi, Fouad, Rddad, Larbi, Carranza, Emmanuel John, and Booth-Rea, Guillermo
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SLABS (Structural geology) , *LEAD isotopes , *ORE deposits , *MIOCENE Epoch , *MINERALIZATION - Abstract
Mineralization processes in the Tell-Atlas of North Africa coincided with magmatism, extension, and lithospheric rejuvenation during the middle to late Miocene. This review examines the lead isotope compositions and Pb-Pb age dating of ore deposits in the region to elucidate the sources and timing of mineralization events. The data reveal a predominantly radiogenic signature in the ores, indicating that the primary component is from a crustal source, with a contribution from the mantle. Pb-Pb age dating suggests the ranges of mineralization ages, with late Miocene events being particularly significant, coinciding with proposed sub-continental mantle delamination following subduction of the African lithosphere. In this context, polymetallic mineralizations formed related to felsic magmatism, hydrothermalism driven by extensional faults, resulting in the formation of Mississippi Valley-Type, and Sedimentary exhalative deposits within associated semi-grabens and diapirism. The correlation between orogenic extensional collapse, magmatism, and mineralization underscores the importance of understanding the specific geological context of ore formation. The detachment of subducted slabs and subsequent influx of hot asthenosphere play pivotal roles in creating conducive conditions for mineralization. This study sheds light on the intricate interplay between tectonic mechanisms, mantle-crust interactions, and mineralization events in the Tell-Atlas, offering insights for further exploration in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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128. 40Ar/39Ar Age Constraints on HP/LTMetamorphism in Extensively Overprinted Units: The Example of the Alpujárride Subduction Complex (Betic Cordillera, Spain)
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Bessière, Eloïse, Scaillet, Stéphane, Augier, Romain, Jolivet, Laurent, Miguel Azañón, Jose, Booth‐Rea, Guillermo, Romagny, Adrien, and Duval, Florian
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Widespread overprinting of early high‐pressure/low‐temperature (HP/LT) subduction stages due to subsequent collisional or late‐orogenic tectono‐metamorphic events is a common feature affecting the interpretation of geochronologic data from HP/LTorogens. The Betic‐Rif orogen is exemplary in this connection as a great majority of published radiometric ages are found to cluster around 20 Ma. This clustering is commonly interpreted as reflecting a short, yet complex, succession of tectono‐metamorphic events spanning only over a few Myr, including back‐arc extension and overthrusting of the Internal Zones on the External Zones. An alternative explanation consists in the poor preservation of a much earlier HP/LTmetamorphic event, presumably Eocene, coeval with subduction and crustal thickening in the Internal Zones, and particularly the Alpujárride Complex. However, this age is vividly debated due to widespread resetting by the Early Miocene HT/LPoverprint. In this study, we provide new 40Ar/39Ar evidence from white micas selected along an E‐W section of the Internal Betics, from the central to the eastern Alpujárride Complex. Our new data show (a) that exceptionally well‐preserved HP/LTparageneses in this unit retain a well‐defined Eocene age around 38 Ma, and (b) that widespread 20 Ma ages recorded all along the section correspond to a regional stage of exhumation, coeval with a major change in the kinematics of back‐arc extension. Our study provides conclusive evidence that 40Ar/39Ar dating of carefully targeted HP/LTassociations can overcome the problem of extensive late‐orogenic overprinting, testifying for an Eocene HPevent around 38 Ma in the Betic‐Rif orogen. High‐pressure/low‐temperature parageneses, related to the M1 conditions, in the Alpujárride Complex dated at 38 Ma by 40Ar/39Ar of white micasLater retrograde micas yield a 20 Ma spike extensively recorded throughout the Betic Cordillera, and corresponds to a regional exhumationEn‐masse isothermal decompression forced the Ar‐white mica system into the open‐system P‐Tfield producing a resetting of 40Ar/39Ar ages High‐pressure/low‐temperature parageneses, related to the M1 conditions, in the Alpujárride Complex dated at 38 Ma by 40Ar/39Ar of white micas Later retrograde micas yield a 20 Ma spike extensively recorded throughout the Betic Cordillera, and corresponds to a regional exhumation En‐masse isothermal decompression forced the Ar‐white mica system into the open‐system P‐Tfield producing a resetting of 40Ar/39Ar ages
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129. The Alboran volcanic-arc modulated the Messinian faunal exchange and salinity crisis.
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Booth-Rea, Guillermo, R. Ranero, César, and Grevemeyer, Ingo
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What process triggered the Mediterranean Sea restriction remains debated since the discovery of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). Recent hypotheses infer that the MSC initiated after the closure of the Atlantic-Mediterranean Betic and Rifean corridors, being modulated through restriction at the Gibraltar Strait. These hypotheses however, do not integrate contemporaneous speciation patterns of the faunal exchange between Iberia and Africa and several geological features like the evaporite distribution. Exchange of terrestrial biota occurred before, during and after the MSC, and speciation models support an exchange path across the East Alborán basin (EAB) located a few hundreds of km east of the Gibraltar Strait. Yet, a structure explaining jointly geological and biological observations has remained undiscovered. We present new seismic data showing the velocity structure of a well-differentiated 14-17-km thick volcanic arc in the EAB. Isostatic considerations support that the arc-crust buoyancy created an archipelago leading to a filter bridge across the EAB. Sub-aerial erosional unconformities and onlap relationships support that the arc was active between ~10-6 Ma. Progressive arc build-up leading to an archipelago and its later subsidence can explain the extended exchange of terrestrial biota between Iberia and Africa (~7-3 Ma), and agrees with patterns of biota speciation and terrestrial fossil distribution before the MSC (10-6.2 Ma). In this scenario, the West Alboran Basin (WAB) could then be the long-postulated open-marine refuge for the Mediterranean taxa that repopulated the Mediterranean after the MSC, connected to the deep restricted Mediterranean basin through a sill at the Alboran volcanic arc archipelago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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130. Late Miocene extensional collapse of Northern Tunisia.
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Gaidi, Seifeddine, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Melki, Fetheddine, Marzougui, Wissem, Azañón, Jose Miguel, and Pérez-Peña, Jose Vicente
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- 2018
131. Slab dynamics and the extensional attenuation of foreland thrust belts in the western Mediterranean.
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Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Gaidi, Seifeddine, Melki, Fetheddine, Marzougui, Wissem, Moragues, Lluis, Azañón, Jose Miguel, and Pérez-Peña, Jose Vicente
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132. The Baza basin: A post-Tortonian pull-apart basin controlled by lithosphere tearing processes at a STEP boundary of the Gibraltar Arc Suduction System.
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Pérez-Peña, Jose Vicente, Azañón, Jose Miguel, Galve, Jorge Pedro, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, de Lis Mancilla, Flor, Stich, Daniel, and Morales, Jose
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- 2018
133. Topographic disequilibrium in response to tectonic processes induced by crustal buoyancy and slab tearing (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain).
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Azañón, Jose Miguel, Pérez-Peña, Jose Vicente, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Galve, Jorge Pedro, de Lis Mancilla, Flor, Morales, Jose, and Stich, Daniel
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- 2018
134. Is The Iberian-African plates boundary well defined in the Alboran Basin of theWesternmost Mediterranean?
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de la Peña, Laura Gómez, Ranero, César, Gràcia, Eulàlia, Perea, Hector, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, and Azañón, Jose Miguel
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- 2018
135. Tectónica extensional cenozoica en la isla de Mallorca (Baleares) y su relación con la evolución geodinámica del Mediterráneo Occidental
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Moragues Zaforteza, Luis Gonzaga, Booth Rea, Guillermo, Universidad de Granada. Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias de la Tierra, and Booth-Rea, Guillermo
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Geodinámica ,Mediterráneo occidental ,Mallorca ,Tectónica - Abstract
Nuestros estudios modifican sensiblemente y añaden mayor complejidad a los anteriores trabajos geodinámicos centrados en los relieves de la isla de Mallorca, focalizados casi exclusivamente en una fase compresiva oligo-miocena y en una posterior fase extensional en el Mioceno Medio como resultado de la relajación de la anterior., Our work significantly modifies and adds to the previous geodynamic studies focused on the tectonic evolution of the island of Mallorca., Tesis Univ. Granada.
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136. The structure of the Temsamane fold-and-thrust stack (eastern Rif, Morocco): Evolution of a transpressional orogenic wedge.
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Jabaloy-Sánchez, Antonio, Azdimousa, Ali, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Asebriy, Lahcen, Vázquez-Vílchez, Mercedes, Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, and Gabites, Janet
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THRUST belts (Geology) , *SHEAR zones , *DEFORMATIONS (Mechanics) , *DUCTILITY , *METAMORPHIC rocks - Abstract
The structure of the Temsamane fold-and-thrust stack corresponds to four units limited by anastomosing ductile shear zones cutting a trend of south verging recumbent folds. This ductile stack was formed in an inclined left-handed transpressional zone at the North African paleomargin during Chattian to Langhian times producing two main deformational events. The first event (D p ) produced a S p /L p planar linear fabric generated in a non-coaxial deformation with a top-to-the-WSW sense of movement and was associated to metamorphic P–T conditions varying from late diagenesis in the southernmost Temsamane outcrops to epizone in the north. According to the 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages, this deformation occurred at Chattian–Aquitanian times. The second deformational event (D c event) generated ENE–WSW trending folds with SSE vergence and a set of anastomosing shear zones with S m /L m planar linear fabric. The latter units were generated at around 15 Ma (Langhian), and indicate a strong localization of the simple shear component of the transpression. Moreover, this orientation is compatible with the kinematics of the Temsamane detachment, which can explain most of the uplift of the Temsamane rocks from the middle to the uppermost crust. The described evolution indicates that collision between the western Mediterranean terranes and the North African paleomargin and the formation of the Rifean orogenic wedge occurred at Chattian to Langhian times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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137. Morfología tectónica de estructuras neógeno-cuaternarias en las béticas orientales
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Giaconia, Flavio, Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Geodinámica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Azañón Hernández, José Miguel, Booth Rea, Guillermo, Martínez Martínez, José Miguel, and Booth-Rea, Guillermo
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Cordilleras Béticas ,Estratigrafía ,Física de suelos ,Geología ,Cuaternario ,Tectónica ,Ciencias de la tierra ,551.4 - Abstract
Tesis Univ. Granada. Programa Oficial de Doctorado en: Ciencias de la Tierra
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- 2014
138. Geomorphological, seismic and geological interpretation of Neogene to recent deformations in northern Tunisia
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Gaidi, Seifeddine, Booth Rea, Guillermo, Fetheddine, Melki, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Universidad de Granada, Junta de Andalucía, and Universidad de Granada. Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias de la Tierra
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Segmentación de fallas ,Tectonique active ,Technologies InSAR ,Glissement actif ,Morfotectónica ,Tectónica activa ,InSAR technologies ,Plio- Quaternaire, Néogéne ,Northern Tunisia ,Extension ,Morphotectonique ,Nord de la Tunisie ,Norte de Túnez ,Plio- Cuaternario ,Fault segmentation ,Crustal extension ,Active tectonics ,Morphotectonics ,Segmentation des failles ,Active Landslide ,Plio- Quaternary ,Eurasia-Africa Convergence ,Extensión cortical ,Tecnología InSAR ,Convergence Eurasie-Afrique ,Convergencia África-Eurasia - Abstract
This Thesis analyses the tectonic evolution of Northern Tunisia from the Late Miocene to Present, using multiscale and multisource data analyses involving new technologies and approaches. Two orthogonal extensional systems with ENE- and SE-directed transport produced the extensional collapse of the Tell and Atlas thrust belts in northern Tunisia during the Late Miocene to Pliocene in a context of NW-SE plate convergence between Africa and Eurasia. This new hypothesis suggests for the first time the importance of crustal extension in the denudation of the Tunisian Atlas and Tell foreland thrust belts, which we related to deep mantle tectonic mechanisms, known as a common feature in other FTB´s in the western Mediterranean, i.e. Betics, Rif, Calabria and Apennines. Low-angle normal faults have extended and reworked the Tunisian Tell external foreland thrust belt, exhuming midcrustal epizonal Triassic metapelites and forming Late Miocene basins. This extension was followed by later Pliocene to Present tectonic inversion, developing the active shortening structures in Northern Tunisia. The main shortening structure is formed by different reverse and strike-slip fault segments, linked forming the 130 km long Alia-Thibar shear zone. Restored Plio- Quaternary deformation observed on reflection seismic lines indicates deformation rates around 0.6-0.8 mm/yr in the studied segments and larger amounts of shortening to the West of Northern Tunisia (16%) than to the East (7%), which suggests that tectonic inversion started earlier to the West and later propagated eastwards, reaching Northeastern Tunisia in the Late Pliocene. Due to the young age of tectonic this inversion, the present relief of Northern Tunisia is characteristic of a young thrust and fold belt, with dominating axial valleys along synforms and an incipient transverse drainage development propagating from West to East. New topographic development is favouring slope instabilities. Thus, in addition, we used a interdisciplinary approach, including Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technologies to analyse the Chgega active landslide, or more specifically as vast rock spreading that evolved into a block slide, characterizing a progressive movement without clear episodic accelerations., En la presente Tesis doctoral analizamos la evolución tectónica del Norte de Túnez desde el Mioceno Superior hasta el presente, usando una metodología multidisciplinar que incluye el análisis tectónico y morfométrico de la región. El cinturón de pliegues y cabalgamientos del Tell tunecino fue adelgazado por dos sistemas extensionales ortogonales con transporte hacia el ENE y ESE, respectivamente, entre el Mioceneo Superior y el Plioceno en un contexto de convergencia NW-SE entre las placas Africana y Euroasiática. Esta nueva hipótesis sugiere por primera vez la importancia de la denudación extensional en el cinturón orogénico del Tell tunecino, en relación con mecanismos tectónicos profundos, como delaminación del manto litosférico subcontinental, descritos en otros cinturones de pliegues y cabalgamientos del Mediterráneo occidental como las Béticas, Rif, Calabria o los Apeninos. Fallas normales de bajo ángulo han extendido el cinturón de cabalgamientos exhumando rocas metamórficas situadas a la base del prisma orogénico a profundidades de corteza media, concomitántemente al desarrollo de cuencas sedimentarias del Mioceno Superior. Esta extensión fue seguida de una inversión tectónica contractiva desde el Plioceno, formándose las presentes estructuras transcurrentes y fallas inversas activas en el norte de Túnez. El principal zona de falla transcurrente de la region es la zona de falla de Alia-Thibar, con una longitud total de 130 km y compuesta por hasta 5 segmentos unidos, con diferente cinemática. La restauración del acortamiento observado en diversas lineas de sísmica de reflexión paralelas a la dirección de acortamiento indica tasas de acortamiento de 0,6-0,8 mm/año en los segmentos estudados y valores de acortamiento mayores al oeste de Tunez (16%) que hacia el este (7%). Esto podría indicar que la inversión tectónica se inició antes hacia el oeste y se ha propagado posteriormente hacia el este, afectando al NE de Túnez a partir del Plioceno superior. El relieve del norte de Túnez es característico de un cinturón de pliegues y cabalgamientos joven, con dominio de sistemas fluviales axiales a lo largo de sinformes y el desarrollo de un sistema de drenaje transverso incipiente, que se propaga de oeste a este. Este nuevo crecimiento topográfico está favoreciendo la inestabilidad de laderas. Por ello, hemos usado una metodología interdisciplinar, incluyendo el análisis interferométrico de radar (InSAR) para estudiar el deslizamiento activo de Chgega, caracterizado por un movimiento progresivo sin aceleraciones episódicas claras., La thèse présente et discute l'activité tectonique du nord de la Tunisie du Néogène, en se basant sur des analyses de données multi-échelles et multi-sources impliquant de nouvelles technologies et approches. Le présent manuscrit met en évidence deux systèmes d'extension orthogonaux avec un transport ENE et SE, produisantt l'effondrement des structures du Tell et de l'Atlas dans le nord de la Tunisie du Miocène supérieur au Pliocène dans un contexte de convergence des plaques NW-SE entre l'Afrique et l'Eurasie. Cette nouvelle hypothèse suggère pour la première fois l'importance de l'extension crustale dans la dénudation des limites de chevauchement de l'Atlas tunisien et de l'avant-pays du Tell qui est liée aux mécanismes tectoniques au niveau du manteau profond, connue comme une caractéristique commune pour d'autres FTB en Méditerranée occidentale, la Bétique et Rif. L'interprétation de la cristallinité de l'illite effectuée sur des métapélites du Trias correspond au modèle d'effondrement polyphasé orogénique tardif, mettant en cause l'évolution diapirique à longue durée de vie proposée précédemment dans des travaux antérieurs. Les structures compressives actives dans le nord de la Tunisie se sont développées par inversion tectonique depuis le Pliocène. La déformation plio-quaternaire est mise en évidence à travers des lignes sismiques réflexions qui caractérisent, via restoration de coupes, des taux de déformation autour de 0,6-0,8 mm/an dans les segments étudiés et des raccourcissements plus importants du Nord-Ouest (16 %) vers le Nord-Est (7 %) de la Tunisie. De ce fait, l’inversion tectonique a commencé vers l'Ouest et s'est ensuite propagée vers l'Est, atteignant le Nord-Est de la Tunisie à la fin du Pliocène. En raison du jeune âge de cette inversion tectonique, le relief actuel du nord de la Tunisie est caractéristique d'un jeune ensemble de chevauchement et de plis, avec des vallées axiales dominantes le long des synformes et un début de développement de drainage transversal se propageant d'Ouest en Est. De plus, les technologies du radar interférométrique à synthèse d'ouverture (InSAR) ont révélé que la structure de Chgega est un glissement de terrain complexe actuellement actif, ou plus précisément comme un vaste étalement de roches qui a évolué en un glissement de blocs, caractérisant un mouvement progressif sans accélérations épisodiques claires identifiées., Tesis Univ. Granada., CGL2015-67130- C2-1-RErasmus Mundus External Cooperation, Office National des Mines (ONM) Tunis el Manar University Group for Relief and Active Processes Analysis (ARPA) from the University of Granada, Ministerio de Ciencia e innovación PID2019-107138RB-I00 and P18-RT- 3632, Junta de Andalucia
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139. Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic systematics of crustal rocks from the western Betics (S. Spain): Implications for crustal recycling in the lithospheric mantle beneath the westernmost Mediterranean.
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Varas-Reus, María Isabel, Garrido, Carlos J., Marchesi, Claudio, Bosch, Delphine, Acosta-Vigil, Antonio, Hidas, Károly, Barich, Amel, and Booth-Rea, Guillermo
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ISOTOPES , *OLIGOCENE paleontology , *SEISMIC anisotropy , *PLATE tectonics , *PYROXENITE - Abstract
We present new Sr-Nd-Pb isotope data of the western Alpujárride metamorphic basement and the pre-Miocene Flysch sediments of the Betic Cordillera (southern Spain). Nd model ages are consistent with an increasing detrital input from the Alborán domain to the Flysch Trough in the western Mediterranean during the late Oligocene. The Alpujárride metamorphic crustal rocks derived from Archean-Paleoproterozoic terranes located along the northern margin of Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic. The heterogeneous isotopic signatures of the Alpujárride units indicate that they have different sedimentary protoliths and underwent contrasted Variscan and pre-Variscan tectono-magmatic evolutions. Melts/fluids derived from the western Alpujárride gneisses contaminated the mantle source of the Ronda high-Mg pyroxenite dykes, implying that the Alpujárride lower crust underthrusted the subcontinental lithospheric mantle of the Alborán domain generating subduction-like magmatism in the late Oligocene. The western Alpujárride upper crust is involved in the Neogene volcanism of the Alborán Sea basin, but only contaminated some LREE-enriched calc-alkaline lavas erupted along the continental margins. On the other hand, tholeiitic lavas in the center of the basin show no isotopic evidence of crustal assimilation. This indicates that most of the crust in the central Alborán Sea accreted by Miocene tholeiitic magmatism and that Alpujárride lower crust is absent and likely foundered close to the continental margins of the basin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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140. The evolution of the westernmost Mediterranean basins.
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Gómez de la Peña, Laura, R. Ranero, César, Gràcia, Eulàlia, and Booth-Rea, Guillermo
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MIOCENE Epoch , *PLATE tectonics , *OLIGOCENE Epoch , *OCEANIC crust , *STRUCTURAL geology - Abstract
Based on more than 4,500 km of new and re-processed multichannel seismic lines, high-resolution seafloor bathymetry, available well data, and basement dredge samples, we have re-evaluated the entire stratigraphy and the tectonic evolution of the Alboran and western Algerian basins. We have correlated the sediment units deposited since the beginning of the formation of the different sub-basins, and we present for the first time a coherent stratigraphy and large-scale tectonic evolution of the whole region. The results provide the information to test and refine models of the geodynamic evolution of the westernmost Mediterranean. The data analysis supports an independent evolution of the sub-basins through the latemost Oligocene and Miocene, and a common Plio-Holocene evolution. The latemost Oligocene and Miocene evolution was controlled by the evolution of the Gibraltar subduction system. The oldest sedimentary unit is restricted to the West Alboran and Malaga basins depocenter that during the latemost Oligocene and early Miocene connected to some smaller marine basins currently uplifted and located onshore on the Betics range. Later, during the middle Miocene, the Habibas and Pytheas sub-basins formed a second depocenter on the North African margin. The different sedimentary units found in both depocenters, together with their different deformation patterns, support that the West Alboran-Malaga and the Habibas-Pytheas depocenters were separated by a major tectonic boundary. The early Tortonian initial arc magmatic activity produced the formation of new areas floored by a volcanic basement by the end of the late Tortonian, when the first sedimentary units deposited in the East Alboran sub-basin, and probably during the late Tortonian-early Messinian in the South Alboran sub-basin. Extension of the back-arc setting created oceanic crust flooring the Algero Balearic Basin. The extensional formation of the westernmost Mediterranean basins ended in the latemost Miocene. The western migration of the subduction system stopped and the convergence between the African and the European tectonic plates started to dominate the tectonic evolution of the region. During the Plio-Holocene, the sub-basins did not further subside individually so that these sediments have spread out across the whole Alboran Basin. A new tectonic contractional and strike-slip fault system developed that is active nowadays. The integration of our results together with the most recent tomographic studies has been used to test and refine the existing kinematic models of the area. None of the existing models explains all our large-scale observations. • We present the first unified stratigraphy of the westernmost Mediterranean. • Miocene marine basins currently onshore are integrated. • We present a kinematic model for the Alboran and Algero-Balearic basins. • We evaluate western Mediterranean geodynamic models in the framework of basin evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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141. Evidence for a developing plate boundary in the western Mediterranean.
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Gómez de la Peña L, R Ranero C, Gràcia E, Booth-Rea G, Azañón JM, Tinivella U, and Yelles-Chaouche A
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The current diffuse-strain model of the collision between Africa and Eurasia in the western Mediterranean predicts a broad region with deformation distributed among numerous faults and moderate-magnitude seismicity. However, the model is untested because most deformation occurs underwater, at poorly characterized faults of undetermined slip. Here we assess the diffuse-strain model analysing two active offshore fault systems associated with the most prominent seafloor relief in the region. We use pre-stack depth migrated seismic images to estimate, for the first time, the total Plio-Holocene slip of the right-lateral Yusuf and reverse Alboran Ridge structurally linked fault system. We show that kinematic restoration of deformational structures predicts a slip of 16 ± 4.7 km for the Alboran Ridge Fault and a minimum of 12 km for the Yusuf Fault. Thus, this fault system forms a well-defined narrow plate boundary that has absorbed most of the 24 ± 5 km Plio-Holocene Africa-Eurasia convergence and represents an underappreciated hazard., (© 2022. The Author(s).)
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- 2022
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