Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic deformation of Northeast Asia
The plate tectonic paradigm implies rigid plates and narrow plate boundaries. In contrast, diffuse plate boundaries are common both in the oceans and continents [R.G. Gordon, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26 (1998) 615-642], and their history is difficult to constrain, especially in remote, tectonic...
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ftqueensland:oai:eprints.qut.edu.au:234228 2024-05-19T07:43:17+00:00 Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic deformation of Northeast Asia Gaina, C. Roest, W. R. Müller, R. D. 2002-04-15 https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234228/ unknown Elsevier BV doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00499-5 Gaina, C., Roest, W. R., & Müller, R. D. (2002) Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic deformation of Northeast Asia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 197(3-4), pp. 273-286. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234228/ Crown copyright 2002 This work is covered by copyright. Unless the document is being made available under a Creative Commons Licence, you must assume that re-use is limited to personal use and that permission from the copyright owner must be obtained for all other uses. If the document is available under a Creative Commons License (or other specified license) then refer to the Licence for details of permitted re-use. It is a condition of access that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. If you believe that this work infringes copyright please provide details by email to qut.copyright@qut.edu.au Earth and Planetary Science Letters Compression Extension Magnetization Northeast Asia Plate boundaries Pole positions Rotation Strike-slip faults Contribution to Journal 2002 ftqueensland https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00499-5 2024-04-30T23:59:52Z The plate tectonic paradigm implies rigid plates and narrow plate boundaries. In contrast, diffuse plate boundaries are common both in the oceans and continents [R.G. Gordon, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26 (1998) 615-642], and their history is difficult to constrain, especially in remote, tectonically complex areas such as northeast Asia [M.E. Chapman, S.C. Solomon, J. Geophys. Res. 81 (1976) 921-930]. Here we show how extensive North Atlantic marine magnetic [R. Macnab et al., EOS 76 (1995) 449, 458] and gravity data [D.T. Sandwell, W.H.F. Smith, J. Geophys. Res. 102 (1997) 10039-10054] can be used to unravel, with tight confidence limits, successive periods of deformation over 80 million years, along the diffuse continental Eurasian-North American plate boundary. A period of compression in the Late Cretaceous (14 mm/yr in the Laptev Sea to 20 mm/yr in Kamchatka) led to thrusting in the Verkhoyansk Mountains, and was followed by extension from 68 to 40 Ma when ∼400 km of extension was accommodated by the formation of a series of grabens, including the Moma Rift system. Since 40 Ma, time-varying compression and transpression along the Moma Rift system created strike-slip faults, thrusts and folds at rates up to 6.3 mm/yr. In the Laptev Sea region, 600 km of extension from latest Late Cretaceous to present created the Laptev Sea and Lena Rift systems. The deformation predicted by our model fits most geological features formed in the Laptev Sea and central northeast Asia during Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic times. The most recent deformation (Late Miocene-Pliocene) is not very well constrained since our model lacks data younger than 11 Ma. The deformation that occurred in Kamchatka reflects a complex tectonic setting and our model's predictions are only tentative. Article in Journal/Newspaper Kamchatka laptev Laptev Sea North Atlantic Queensland University of Technology: QUT ePrints Earth and Planetary Science Letters 197 3-4 273 286 |
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The plate tectonic paradigm implies rigid plates and narrow plate boundaries. In contrast, diffuse plate boundaries are common both in the oceans and continents [R.G. Gordon, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26 (1998) 615-642], and their history is difficult to constrain, especially in remote, tectonically complex areas such as northeast Asia [M.E. Chapman, S.C. Solomon, J. Geophys. Res. 81 (1976) 921-930]. Here we show how extensive North Atlantic marine magnetic [R. Macnab et al., EOS 76 (1995) 449, 458] and gravity data [D.T. Sandwell, W.H.F. Smith, J. Geophys. Res. 102 (1997) 10039-10054] can be used to unravel, with tight confidence limits, successive periods of deformation over 80 million years, along the diffuse continental Eurasian-North American plate boundary. A period of compression in the Late Cretaceous (14 mm/yr in the Laptev Sea to 20 mm/yr in Kamchatka) led to thrusting in the Verkhoyansk Mountains, and was followed by extension from 68 to 40 Ma when ∼400 km of extension was accommodated by the formation of a series of grabens, including the Moma Rift system. Since 40 Ma, time-varying compression and transpression along the Moma Rift system created strike-slip faults, thrusts and folds at rates up to 6.3 mm/yr. In the Laptev Sea region, 600 km of extension from latest Late Cretaceous to present created the Laptev Sea and Lena Rift systems. The deformation predicted by our model fits most geological features formed in the Laptev Sea and central northeast Asia during Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic times. The most recent deformation (Late Miocene-Pliocene) is not very well constrained since our model lacks data younger than 11 Ma. The deformation that occurred in Kamchatka reflects a complex tectonic setting and our model's predictions are only tentative. |
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Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic deformation of Northeast Asia |
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Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic deformation of Northeast Asia |
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Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic deformation of Northeast Asia |
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Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic deformation of Northeast Asia |
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late cretaceous-cenozoic deformation of northeast asia |
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doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00499-5 Gaina, C., Roest, W. R., & Müller, R. D. (2002) Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic deformation of Northeast Asia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 197(3-4), pp. 273-286. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234228/ |
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