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Late Cenozoic faulting deformation of the Fanshi Basin (northern Shanxi rift, China), inferred from palaeostress analysis of mesoscale fault-slip data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2022

Konan Roger Assie Open the ORCID record for Konan Roger Assie [Opens in a new window] ,
Yu Wang ,
Markos D. Tranos Open the ORCID record for Markos D. Tranos [Opens in a new window] ,
Huimin Ma Open the ORCID record for Huimin Ma [Opens in a new window] ,
Kouamelan Serge Kouamelan ,
Eric Thompson Brantson ,
Liyun Zhou  and
Yanick Blaise Ketchaya
Konan Roger Assie
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Yu Wang*
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Markos D. Tranos
Affiliation:
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, P.O. Box 5070, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Huimin Ma
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Kouamelan Serge Kouamelan
Affiliation:
School of Geophysics and Information Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Eric Thompson Brantson
Affiliation:
School of Petroleum Studies, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana
Liyun Zhou
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Yanick Blaise Ketchaya
Affiliation:
School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China
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Author for correspondence: Yu Wang, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The Fanshi Basin is one of the NE–SW-striking depocentres formed along the northern segment of the fault-bounded Shanxi rift. In order to understand the crustal driving stresses that led to the basin formation and development, a palaeostress analysis of a large quantity of fault-slip data collected mainly at the boundaries of the basin was accomplished. The stress inversion of these data revealed three stress regimes. The oldest SR1 was a Neogene stress regime giving rise to a strike-slip deformation with NE–SW contraction and NW–SE extension. SR1 activated the large faults trending NNE–NE, i.e. (sub)parallel to the main strike of the Shanxi rift, as right-lateral strike-slip faults. It was subjected to the Shanxi rift before the activation of the Fanshi Basin boundary fault, i.e. the Fanshi (or Wutai) fault, as a normal fault. The next is a short-lived NE–SW extensional stress regime SR2 in early Pleistocene time, which shows the inception of the basin’s extension. A strong NW–SE to NNW–SSE extensional stress regime SR3 has governed the northern segment of the Shanxi rift since late Pleistocene time and is the present-day extension. It gave rise to the current half-graben geometry of the Fanshi Basin by activating the Fanshi (or Wutai) fault as a normal fault in the southern part of the graben. Because of the dominance of the NW–SE to NNW–SSE extension, which is perpendicular to the NE–SW extension, mutual permutations between σ3 and σ2 due to inherited fault patterns might have occurred while the crustal stresses in the Fanshi Basin changed from the SR1 to SR3 stress regimes.

Keywords

fault-slip analysisstress inversionintraplate deformationhalf-grabennorthern Shanxi riftChina
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FAULTS, FRACTURES AND STRESS
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Geological Magazine , Volume 159 , Issue 11-12: THEMATIC ISSUE: Faults and fractures in rocks: mechanics, occurrence, dating, stress history and fluid flow , November 2022 , pp. 2306 - 2322
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