Longitudinal strike-slip faults in oceanic rifting: a mesostructural study from western to southeastern Iceland

作者: P Passerini , M Marcucci , G Sguazzoni , E Pecchioni

DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00153-9

关键词: UpwellingStrike-slip tectonicsTectonicsAxial compressionShear (geology)GeologyLithosphereMantle (geology)RiftSeismologyEarth-Surface ProcessesGeophysics

摘要: Abstract Mesostructural analysis carried out in several localities of western, southern-central and southeastern Iceland shows an unexpectedly frequent occurrence strike-slip faults parallel to, or lying at relatively small angles with, the axis rifting. Some can be interpreted terms shear to rifts, whereas others form conjugate systems referable rift-parallel compression. Axial explained by accommodation differences directions tectonic extension between different segments axial rift system subordinately lateral (rift-parallel) displacements major lithospheric plates. compression may attributable rift-oblique transform mantle transport spreading compensating local deficiencies upwelling. The data regard 1974 fault surfaces, mainly small-scale.

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