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Mechanical relationship between strike-slip faulting and salt tectonics in the Northern Tunisian Atlas: The Bir-El-Afou salt structure

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JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
卷 154, 期 -, 页码 -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2021.104501

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Salt diapir; Pull-apart; Restraining bend; Inversion; Tunisia

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  1. Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (CERTE, Geo-resources Laboratory funding)

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A wide variety of salt structures have been identified in the Northern Tunisian Atlas, with a newly discovered diapiric structure Bir-ElAfou Salt Structure (BEASS) formed in response to strike-slip tectonics. BEASS is currently associated with a restraining bend resulting from an E-W dextral fault system. Salt movement in the basin during the Cretaceous South Tethyan extension facilitated diapiric emplacement, followed by salt flow towards the basin forming a salt sheet during Aptian.
Wide variety of salt structures -from typical diapirs to large allochthonous salt sheets- are recognized in the Northern Tunisian Atlas. In this study, we present for the first time the presence of a diapiric structure, Bir-ElAfou Salt Structure (BEASS), which has formed in response to strike-slip tectonics. Structural mapping, mesoscale field observations, fault kinematic analysis, and interpretation of gravity data are used to interpret BEASS, which is currently associated with a restraining bend. The present-day NNE- trending restraining stepover is formed as a result of E-W dextral fault system. We assume that the restraining stepover is a product of the inversion of a pre-existing pull-apart basin that formed during the Cretaceous South Tethyan extension. Tectono-sedimentary relationship is used to argue for an early Cretaceous NW-SE regional extension and local transtension. During the opening of the pull-apart basin, salt movement took place in the southwestern corner of the basin which must have thinned due to its extension facilitating diapiric emplacement. Diapir growth during Aptian was followed by brief salt flow from the diapir crest towards the basin forming a salt sheet. A period of Tertiary contraction resulted in the inversion of the pull-apart basin and consequently, squeezing of BEASS.

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