GIS based 3D visualization of subsurface and surface lineaments / faults and their geological significance, northern tamil nadu, India

Saravanavel, J.; Ramasamy, S. M.

doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-xl-8-469-2014

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“…The alignment of earthquake epicentres clearly indicates that there is a subsurface seismically active basement fault and could be the source of strong earthquakes in the future (Jacobi, 2002;Almeida-Filho et al, 2009;Talukdar and Barman, 2012;Saravanavel and Ramasamy, 2014;Phelps et al, 2015). Some of the seismic lineaments were interpreted along the southeastern region of the United States based on epicentral alignments of earthquakes (Nowroozi, 1995).…”

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“…9 and 11). Many of the basement faults were exposed at the surface as lineaments or faults (Plafker, 1964;Henden, 1981;Numan and Al-Azzawi, 1993;Singh and Singh, 2005;Wilson et al, 2010;Saravanavel and Ramasamy, 2014;Sissakian et al, 2014;Abdunaser, 2015). The Zagros basement in Iran consists of seismically "active" and "inactive" faults with dominant N-S, NE-SW and NW-SE trends (Bahroudi, 2003).…”

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Basement Fault Reactivation in the Zakho– Silopi Region, Iraqi Kurdistan – Turkey Border

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2018

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The nature and orientation of underlying Late Precambrian basement structures, and their relationships to the seismic distribution and surface linear structures has provided a basis for studying the basement fault reactivation in the Zakho -Silopi region. This border region between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey is located in the north-eastern boundary of the Arabian plate and covers some parts of the Zagros fold-thrust belt as well as the high folded and foothill zones of Iraq. The Zakho -Silopi region is characterized by moderatesized earthquakes of shallow-focus that caused mostly by the neotectonic reactivation of Late Precambrian thrust and strike-slip basement faults due to the on-going active continental collision between Arabia and Eurasia. Four potential NE-and NW-trending seismic lineaments were identified, based on the epicentral alignments of major earthquake and the orientation of nodal fault planes, to be the most seismically active basement faults in the Zakho -Silopi region. Any potential for the future damaging earthquakes throughout this region will be more likely associated with the reactivation of the basement faults along these active seismic lineaments. Therefore, a detailed seismic hazard assessment is recommended for the major cities and urban localities. The present-day stress-field orientation inferred from the inversion of fault plane solutions and lineament analysis indicates that the Zakho -Silopi region is undergoing a continuous state of nearly N-S (N05°E) compression. The trend analysis of lineament patterns and seismic lineaments reveals three dominant basement fault trends in the Zakho -Silopi region; roughly N-S, NE-SW, and NW-SE. These basement faults were probably initiated in Late Precambrian as normal faults, and subsequently inverted into thrust faults with a significant strike-slip component, and reactivated continuously from Late Cretaceous to present-day.

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