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Block 5: Role of inheritances & thermicity

Role of Rift inheritances in orogenic processes

Presentation

Block 5 aims to unravel the role of rift-related thermal, compositional and structural inheritance during subsequent orogeny.

This block especially targets:

The impact of pre-orogenic maturity of oceanic basins (wide vs. narrow oceans) in orogenic processes,
The modalities of inversion of former rifted margins / rift systems with a specific emphasis on the role of inherited crustal and lithospheric structures, composition and thermal history,
The role of pre-orogenic asymmetry of convergent margins and non-cylindricity during subsequent formation of mountain belts,
Thermal evolution of orogenic systems.

Methods

Block 5 is multi-disciplinary including the following approaches/methods:

Field geology,
Plate kinematic reconstructions,
Marine geology/geophysics,
Geochronology,
Modelling,
…

Study areas

Pyrenees – Bay of Biscay: this area preserves different evolutionary stages of the Wilson cycle along strike which allows to investigate the control of pre-convergent settings on the modality of margin inversion and collison. The role of non-cylindricity and strain partitioning can also be investigated because the rift inheritance is sufficiently preserved and understood to be integrated in the study of orogenic processes.
Western Mediterranean (Betics – Rif domain; in collaboration with block 2): this is a world-class field laboratory to understand the role of rift inheritances and their control on the subsequent post-orogenic evolution (back-arc extension, slab break-off).

Aim

Use the external analogues of the Pyrenees to understand their role during Pyrenean convergence and understand how far the resulting concepts can be used to explain orogenic processes in general.

View the results presented by Pr. Gianreto Manatschal.

Turon de la Técouére – Plateau du Benou – © Eric Gaucher

Modelling of the evolution of the deformation of the different lithospheric layers (strain rate), of the topography and the distribution of heat flow at the top of the basement (R Lescoutre)

Field trip 2019

Plénière 2019

Our team

The research team

Pr. Gianreto Manatschal (Strasbourg, FR) is the principal investigator of Block 5. Research projects in block 5 include 4 post-doc and 4 PhD students based in Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Rennes (France), Barcelona and Oviedo (SP) and research projects developed at the BRGM.

PhDs and Post-docs

Blocks

Publications

Review of Iberia-Eurasia plate-boundary basins: Role of sedimentary burial on depth-dependent continental crust ductile thinning during rifting and continental breakup.

N. Saspiturry, B. Issautier, P. Razin, T. Baudin, R. Asti, Y. Lagabrielle, C. Allanic, O. Serrano, (2021), Review of Iberia-Eurasia plate-boundary basins: Role of sedimentary burial on depth-dependent continental crust ductile thinning during rifting and continental breakup. Basin Research.

keywords: Iberian-European boundary; Sedimentary burial; Salt tectonics; Depth-dependent thinning; Ductile regime; HT/LP metamorphism

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12529

A review of Cretaceous smooth-slopes-extensional basins along the Iberia-Eurasia plate boundary: how prerift salt controls the modes of continental rifting and mantle exhumation.

Y. Lagabrielle, R. Asti, T. Duretz, C. Clerc, S. Fourcade, A. Teixell, P. Labaume, B. Corre, N. Saspiturry, (2020), A review of Cretaceous smooth-slopes-extensional basins along the Iberia-Eurasia plate boundary: how prerift salt controls the modes of continental rifting and mantle exhumation. Earth Science Review.

keywords: Smooth-slopes basins; symmetrical profile; Iberia; Eurasia; Triassic evaporites; décollement layer; thermal anomaly; sedimentary burial; dominating-ductile tectonic regime

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.103071

Unravelling the architecture and multi-stage evolution of the inverted North Iberian-Bay of Biscay rift

Cadenas, P., Manatschal, G., and Fernández-Viejo, G. (2020). Unravelling the architecture and multi-stage evolution of the inverted North Iberian-Bay of Biscay rift. Gondwana Research, 88, 67-87.

keywords: Multi-stage extension, rift system, strike-slip, hyperextension, compressional reactivation, 3D structural segmentation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.06.026

The structure of the Central-Eastern External Rif (Morocco); Poly-phased deformation and role of the under-thrusting of the North-West African paleo-margin

Gimeno-Vives, O., Frizon de Lamotte, D., Leprêtre, R., Haissen, F., Atouabat, A., & Mohn, G.(2020). The structure of the Central-Eastern External Rif (Morocco); Poly-phased deformation and role of the under-thrusting of the North-West African paleo-margin. Earth-Science Reviews, 103198.

keywords: « Rif, Jurassic, North-West African paleo-margin under-thrusting, External Rif structure, Thermochronology »

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103198

Role of structural inheritance and salt tectonics in the formation of pseudosymmetric continental rifts on the european margin of the hyperextended Mauléon basin (Early Cretaceous Arzacq and Tartas Basins)

Issautier, B., Saspiturry N., & Serrano, O. (2020). Role of structural inheritance and salt tectonics in the formation of pseudosymmetric continental rifts on the european margin of the hyperextended Mauléon basin (Early Cretaceous Arzacq and Tartas Basins). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104395

keywords: Rifting, Symmetric basin, Salt tectonic, Inheritance, Early cretaceous, Southwest France

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104395

Role of rift-inheritance and segmentation for orogenic architecture: example from the Pyrenean-Cantabrian system

Lescoutre, R. & Manatschal, G. (2020). Role of rift-inheritance and segmentation for orogenic evolution: example from the Pyrenean-Cantabrian system, BSGF – Earth Sciences Bulletin 191: 18. https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2020021

keywords: Pyrenees, Mauléon, Basque Cantabrian belt, Rift inheritances, strain partitioning, soft transfer zone, Pamplona fault inversion, non-cylindricity

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2020021

A case of ampferer-type subduction and consequences for the alps and the Pyrenees

McCarthy, A., Tugend, J., Mohn, G., Candioti, L., Chelle-Michou, C., Arculus, R., Schmalholz, S., M., Müntener, O. (2020) : A case of ampferer-type subduction and consequences for the alps and the Pyrenees. American Journal of Science 320(April):313-372.

keywords: Ampferer-type subduction, Benioff-type subduction, Alps, Pyrenees, rift basins, amagmatic subduction initiation

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2475/04.2020.01

Closure of a hyperextended system in an orogenic lithospheric pop‐up, Western Pyrenees: The role of mantle buttressing and rift structural inheritance

Saspiturry, N., Allanic, C., Razin, P., Issautier, B., Baudin, T., Lasseur, E., … & Leleu, S. (2020). Closure of a hyperextended system in an orogenic lithospheric pop‐up, Western Pyrenees: The role of mantle buttressing and rift structural inheritance. Terra Nova.

keywords: Mauléon, inheritance, inversion, mantle, pop-up, Cretaceous, Labourd anomaly

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12457

Paleogeothermal Gradients across an Inverted Hyperextended Rift System: Example of the Mauléon Fossil Rift (Western Pyrenees)

Saspiturry, N., Lahfid, A., Baudin, T., Guillou‐Frottier, L., Razin, P., Issautier, B., … & Corre, B. (2020). Paleogeothermal Gradients across an Inverted Hyperextended Rift System: Example of the Mauléon Fossil Rift (Western Pyrenees). Tectonics, 39(10).

keywords: paleogeothermal gradients, RSCM thermometry, hyperextended rift, thermal history, Mauléon basin, Pyrenees

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006206

How do continents deform during mantle exhumation? Insights from the northern Iberia inverted paleopassive margin, western Pyrenees (France).

Asti, R., Lagabrielle, Y., Fourcade, S., Corre, B., & Monié, P. (2019). How do continents deform during mantle exhumation? Insights from the northern Iberia inverted paleopassive margin, western Pyrenees (France). Tectonics, 38, 1666–1693.

keywords: mantle exhumation, Pyrenees, hyperextension, passive margins

DOI: https://doi. org/10.1029/2018TC005428

The Nappe des Marbres unit of the Basque‐Cantabrian Basin: the tectono‐thermal evolution of a fossil hyperextended rift basin.

Ducoux, M., Jolivet, L., Callot, J-P., Lahfid, A., Aubourg, C. et al. (2019). The Nappe des Marbres unit of the Basque‐Cantabrian Basin: the tectono‐thermal evolution of a fossil hyperextended rift basin. Tectonics, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2019, 38 (11), pp.3881-3915. ⟨insu-02288781⟩

keywords: Pyrenean Belt, Eastern Basque‐Cantabrian Basin, structure, metamorphism, RSCM method, salt tectonics, Hyperextended Rift Basin

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005348

Numerical modelling of Cretaceous Pyrenean Rifting: The interaction between mantle exhumation and syn‐rift salt tectonics

Duretz, T., Asti, R., Lagabrielle, Y., Brun, J-P., Jourdon, A.. (2019).Numerical modelling of Cretaceous Pyrenean Rifting: The interaction between mantle exhumation
and syn-rift salt tectonics. Basin Res. 2020;32: 652–667.

keywords: North Pyrenean rifting, numerical modeling, décollement, syn-rift salt tectonics, mantle exhumation, high temperature metamorphism

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12389

The role of serpentinization and magmatism in the formation of decoupling interfaces at magma-poor rifted margins

Gillard, M., Tugend, J., Müntener, O., Manatschal, G., Karner, G.,D., Autin, J., Sauter, D., Figueredo, P., H., Ulrich, M. (2019). The role of serpentinization and magmatism in the formation of decoupling interfaces at magma-poor rifted margins. Earth-Science Reviews, Elsevier, 2019, 196, pp.102882.

keywords: magma-poor margins, Serpentinization, Decoupling, Seismic, interpretation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102882

The Mesozoic Margin of the Maghrebian Tethys in the Rif Belt (Morocco): Evidence for Polyphase Rifting and Related Magmatic Activity

Gimeno‐Vives, O., Mohn, G., Bosse, V., Haissen, F., Zaghloul, M. N., Atouabat, A., & Frizon de Lamotte, D. (2019). The Mesozoic Margin of the Maghrebian Tethys in the Rif Belt (Morocco): Evidence for Polyphase Rifting and Related Magmatic Activity. Tectonics. 38.

keywords: Maghrebian Tethys, Poly‐phased rift, Rif

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005508

Role of rift structural inheritance in orogeny highlighted by the Western Pyrenees case-study

Gómez-Romeu, J., Masini, E., Tugend, J., Ducoux, M., Kusznir, N. (2019). Role of rift structural inheritance in orogeny highlighted by the Western Pyrenees case-study. Tectonophysics, Elsevier, 2019, 766, pp.131-150.

keywords: Western Pyrenees, Rift structural inheritance, Flexural isostatically and structurally balanced cross-section

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.05.022

Mantle exhumation at magma-poor passive continental margins. Part II: Tectonic and metasomatic evolution of large-displacement detachment faults preserved in a fossil distal margin domain (Saraillé lherzolites, northwestern Pyrenees, France)

Lagabrielle, Y., Asti, R., Fourcade, S., Corre, B., Labaume, P., Uzel, J., … & Picazo, S. (2019). Mantle exhumation at magma-poor passive continental margins. Part II: Tectonic and metasomatic evolution of large-displacement detachment faults preserved in a fossil distal margin domain (Saraillé lherzolites, northwestern Pyrenees, France). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 190(1).

keywords: North Pyrenean Zone, Saraillé, mantle exhumation, fluid-rock interactions, talc-chlorite schists, greenschist facies, detachment faults, mid-Late Cretaceous

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2019013

Mantle exhumation at magma-poor passive continental margins. Part I. 3D architecture and metasomatic evolution of a fossil exhumed mantle domain (Urdach lherzolite, north-western Pyrenees, France)

Lagabrielle, Y., Asti, R., Fourcade, S., Corre, B., Labaume, P., Uzel, J., … & Picazo, S. (2019) Mantle exhumation at magma-poor passive continental margins. Part I. 3D architecture and metasomatic evolution of a fossil exhumed mantle domain (Urdach lherzolite, north-western Pyrenees, France) ; BSGF Earth Sciences Bulletin 2019, 190, 8

keywords: North Pyrenean Zone, Urdach, mantle exhumation, fluid-rock interactions, listvenites, greenschist facies, detachment faults, Late Cretaceous

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2019007

PhD Thesis: Formation et réactivation du système de rift pyrénéo-cantabrique : héritage, segmentation et évolution thermique

Lescoutre, Rodolphe. Formation et réactivation du système de rift pyrénéo-cantabrique : héritage, segmentation et évolution thermique. Sciences de la Terre et de l’Univers. Université de Strasbourg

keywords: Rift inheritance, Segmentation, Reactivation, Pyrénées, Thermal evolution, Hyper-extension, Rifts, Tectonics

DOI: https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2019/Lescoutre_Rodolphe_2019_ED413.pdf

Thermal evolution of asymmetric hyperextended magma-poor rift systems: results from numerical modelling and Pyrenean field observations.

Lescoutre, R., Tugend, J., Brune, S., Masini, E. & Manatschal, G. (2019)
Thermal evolution of asymmetric hyperextended magma-poor rift systems: results from numerical modelling and Pyrenean field observations. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 20(1)

keywords: Thermal evolution, Asymmetric rifting, Numerical model, Field analogue, Pyrenees, Heat flow

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008600

PhD Thesis: Évolution sédimentaire, structurale et thermique d’un rift hyper-aminci : de l’héritage post-hercynien à l’inversion alpine : exemple du bassin de Mauléon (Pyrénées)

Nicolas Saspiturry. Évolution sédimentaire, structurale et thermique d’un rift hyper-aminci : de l’héritage post-hercynien à l’inversion alpine : exemple du bassin de Mauléon (Pyrénées). Sciences de la Terre. Université Michel de Montaigne – Bordeaux III, 2019. Français. ⟨NNT : 2019BOR30040⟩. ⟨tel-02860515⟩

keywords: Pyrénées, Bassin de Mauléon, Géodynamique, Héritage post-hercynien, Hyper-extension crétacée, Inversion alpine, Zones de transfert, Métamorphisme HT/BP, Évolution thermique

DOI: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02860515/document

Tectono-sedimentary evolution of a rift system controlled by Permian postorogenic extension and metamorphic core complex formation (Bidarray Basin and Ursuya dome, Western Pyrenees)

Saspiturry, N., Cochelin, B., Razina, P., Leleu, S., Lemirre, B., Bouscarya, C. Issautier, B., Serrano, O., Lasseur, E., Baudin, T., Allanic, C. (2019).Tectono-sedimentary evolution of a rift system controlled by Permian post-orogenic extension and metamorphic core complex formation (Bidarray Basin and Ursuya dome, Western Pyrenees). Tectonophysics, Elsevier, 2019, 768, pp.228180.

keywords: Post-orogenic rift, Permian, Metamorphic core complex, Detachment, Granulites, Continental deposits

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228180

Symmetry vs. asymmetry of a hyper-thinned rift: Example of the Mauléon Basin (Western Pyrenees, France)

Saspiturry, N., Razin, P., Baudin, T., Serrano, O., Issautier, B., Lasseur, E., Allanic, C., Thinon, I. & Leleu, S. (2019) Symmetry vs. asymmetry of a hyper-thinned rift: Example of the Mauleon Basin (Western Pyrenees, France). Marine and Petroleum Geology, Elsevier, 2019, 104, pp.86-105.

keywords: Continental Margins, Stratigraphic Architecture, Hyper-Extended Rift, Pyrenees, Detachment Faulting, Mauleon Basin, Early Cretaceous

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.03.031

PhD Thesis: Structure, thermicité et évolution géodynamique de la Zone Interne Métamorphique des Pyrénées.

Maxime Ducoux. Structure, thermicité et évolution géodynamique de la Zone Interne Métamorphique des Pyrénées. Sciences de la Terre. Université d’Orléans, 2017. Français. ⟨NNT : 2017ORLE2026⟩. ⟨tel-01887025⟩

keywords: Pyrenees, Structural study, HT-LP metamorphism, Raman thermometry, Thrust tectonics, Geodynamic model, Salt tectonics, Inheritance

DOI: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01887025/document