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A Structural Study of the Southern End of the French Jura

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Maurits Lindström
Maurits Lindström
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Lund, Sweden.
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Abstract

In the Chambéry region, Jura folds with a north-north-west trend meet the boundary of the Subalpine zone, which strikes north-north-east. The two fold trends were probably not formed at exactly the same time. Minor folding, thrusting on steep planes, wrench-faulting, formation of sub-horizontal stylolites, and opening of filled joints all took place during a succession of tectonic events with maximum compression at about east-west, after the aforementioned fold-trends had been formed. The evidence considered in this study seems incompatible with hypotheses of deformation by gravitational gliding.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 99 , Issue 3 , June 1962 , pp. 193 - 207
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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