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Title: From Early Contraction to Post-Folding Fluid Evolution in the Frontal Part of the Bóixols Thrust Sheet (Southern Pyrenees) as Revealed by the Texture and Geochemistry of Calcite Cements
Author: Nardini, Nicholas
Muñoz-López, Daniel
Cruset Segura, David
Cantarero Abad, Irene
Martín, Juan Diego (Martín Martín)
Benedicto Esteban, Antonio
Gómez Rivas, Enrique
John, Cédric M.
Travé i Herrero, Anna
Keywords: Geoquímica
Calcita
Isòtops
Sediments marins
Geochemistry
Calcite
Isotopes
Marine sediments
Issue Date: 16-Feb-2019
Publisher: MDPI
Abstract: Structural, petrological and geochemical (δ13C, δ18O, clumped isotopes, 87Sr/86Sr and ICP-MS) analyses of fracture-related calcite cements and host rocks are used to establish a fluid-flow evolution model for the frontal part of the Bóixols thrust sheet (Southern Pyrenees). Five fracture events associated with the growth of the thrust-related Bóixols anticline and Coll de Nargó syncline during the Alpine orogeny are distinguished. These fractures were cemented with four generations of calcite cements, revealing that such structures allowed the migration of different marine and meteoric fluids through time. During the early contraction stage, Lower Cretaceous seawater circulated and precipitated calcite cement Cc1, whereas during the main folding stage, the system opened to meteoric waters, which mixed with the connate seawater and precipitated calcite cement Cc2. Afterwards, during the post-folding stages, connate evaporated marine fluids circulated through newly formed NW-SE and NE-SW conjugate fractures and later through strike-slip faults and precipitated calcite cements Cc3 and Cc4. The overall paragenetic sequence reveals the progressive dewatering of Cretaceous marine host sediments during progressive burial, deformation and fold tightening and the input of meteoric waters only during the main folding stage. This study illustrates the changes of fracture systems and the associated fluid-flow regimes during the evolution of fault-associated folds during orogenic growth.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/min9020117
It is part of: Minerals, 2019, vol. 9, num. 2, p. 117
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/155371
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.3390/min9020117
ISSN: 2075-163X
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