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GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
Volume 216, Issue 2, Pages 1043-1061Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggy481
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Magnetic fabrics and anisotropy; Microstructures; Continental tectonics: compressional; Fractures and faults; High strain deformation zones; Europe
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- MINECO (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain) [CGL2013-42670-P]
- Gobierno de Aragon y Programa Operativo FEDER Aragon 2014-2020 [Geotransfer-E32 17R]
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Of the several factors involved in the development of magnetic fabrics in fault zones at shallow crustal levels, lithology and deformation intensity have probably the most important consequences for the reconstruction of their kinematic history. The basement-involved Cenozoic thrusts in the Demanda Massif (N Spain) provide the opportunity for testing the applicability of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) to the study of deformation in cataclastic fault rocks belonging to shallow fault zones. The Rastraculos thrust is a relatively minor basement thrust (dip-slip movement of 2km defined from cross-sections and geological maps) of Cenozoic age. This thrust contains a re-activated fault zone involving different rock types both belonging to its hangingwall (Palaeozoic) and its footwall (Triassic sandstones and dolostones and Jurassic limestones). AMS results show magnetic foliations parallel or slightly oblique to the fault zone, and both transport-parallel (projected onto the foliation plane) and transport-perpendicular (parallel to the observed intersection lineation) magnetic lineations. The two types of strain/magnetic fabric relationships can be related to deformational and mineralogical features inferred from the direct analysis of thin and polished sections under the microscope and the naked eye, respectively. Analysis of fault rocks in the Rastraculos fault zone indicates that in cataclasites, magnetic fabrics are particularly dependent on lithology and hence magnetic mineralogy. The results obtained prove the usefulness of AMS in fault zones where kinematic indicators are scarce and also give clues on the number of samples necessary to define magnetic susceptibility axes, depending on grain size, ellipsoid shapes and magnetic mineralogy.
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