Tectonic implications of transpression and transtension: Upper Rhine Graben

Rotstein, Y.; Behrmann, Jan H.; Lutz, M.; Wirsing, Gunther; Luz, A.

doi:10.1029/2005tc001797

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“…The hypothesis that these faults are structurally related, as proposed by Behrmann et al (2003) and Rotstein et al (2005) from reprocessed seismic data, should be tested in future studies. -Faults slip rates: we considered slip rates contained in the BDFA (lower and upper bounds).…”

Section: Robustness Indexmentioning

confidence: 96%

Transposing an active fault database into a seismic hazard fault model for nuclear facilities – Part 1: Building a database of potentially active faults (BDFA) for metropolitan France

Jomard

Cushing

Palumbo³

et al. 2017

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), with the support of the Ministry of Environment, compiled a database (BDFA) to define and characterize known potentially active faults of metropolitan France. The general structure of BDFA is presented in this paper. BDFA reports to date 136 faults and represents a first step toward the implementation of seismic source models that would be used for both deterministic and probabilistic seismic hazard calculations. A robustness index was introduced, highlighting that less than 15 % of the database is controlled by reasonably complete data sets. An example of transposing BDFA into a fault source model for PSHA (probabilistic seismic hazard analysis) calculation is presented for the Upper Rhine Graben (eastern France) and exploited in the companion paper (Chartier et al., 2017, hereafter Part 2) in order to illustrate ongoing challenges for probabilistic faultbased seismic hazard calculations.

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Section: Robustness Indexmentioning

confidence: 96%

Transposing an active fault database into a seismic hazard fault model for nuclear facilities – Part 1: Building a database of potentially active faults (BDFA) for metropolitan France

Jomard

Cushing

Palumbo³

et al. 2017

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…In the process of this, the southern parts of the UrG were uplifted and its border faults transpressionally reactivated (Dèzes et al 2004;rotstein et al 2005a;Ziegler & Dèzes 2007). Moreover, a regional erosional unconformity spanning 18.3-17.8 Ma developed in the swiss Molasse basin (Kempf et al 1999).…”

Section: Late Burdigalian Uplift Of the Vosges-black Forest Archmentioning

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Response of drainage systems to Neogene evolution of the Jura fold-thrust belt and Upper Rhine Graben

Ziegler

Fraefel

2009

Swiss J. Geosci.

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the eastern Jura Mountains consist of the Jura fold-thrust belt and the autochthonous tabular Jura and Vesoul-Montbéliard Plateau. they are drained by the river rhine, which flows into the North sea, and the river Doubs, which flows into the Mediterranean. the internal drainage systems of the Jura fold-thrust belt consist of rivers flowing in synclinal valleys that are linked by river segments cutting orthogonally through anticlines. the latter appear to employ parts of the antecedent Jura Nagelfluh drainage system that had developed in response to Late burdigalian uplift of the Vosgesback Forest Arch, prior to Late Miocene-Pliocene deformation of the Jura fold-thrust belt.the following stages are recognized in the evolution of the Jura Mountain drainage systems: 1) middle to late tortonian (10-7.2 Ma) folding-related overpowering and partial reversal of the south-directed Jura Nagelfluh drainage system, 2) Messinian to early Pliocene (7.2-4.2 Ma) Aare-Danube and protoDoubs stage, 3) early to middle Pliocene (4.2-2.9 Ma) Aare-Doubs stage, 4) late Pliocene to early Quaternary (2.9-1.7 Ma) Aare-rhine and Doubs stage and 5) Quaternary (1.7-0 Ma) Alpine-rhine and Doubs stage.Development of the thin-skinned Jura fold-thrust belt controlled the first three stages of this drainage system evolution, whilst the last two stages were essentially governed by the subsidence of the Upper rhine Graben, which resumed during the late Pliocene. Late Pliocene and Quaternary deep incision of the Aare-rhine/Alpine-rhine and its tributaries in the Jura Mountains and black Forest is mainly attributed to lowering of the erosional base level in the continuously subsiding Upper rhine Graben. Incision of the Doubs and Dessoubre canyons reflects uplift of the Franches-Montagnes and Franche-comté in response to thick-skinned deformation of the Jura fold-thrust belt, which had commenced around 3 Ma.Geodetic data indicate that uplift of the Jura Mountains, relative to the tabular Jura, presently continues at very low strain rates whilst the Upper rhine Graben subsides very slowly and the black Forest is relatively stable. Introductionthe Jura fold-thrust belt (JFtb), forming the core of the Jura Mountains, is the youngest and most external element of the central Alpine orogenic system. It has accounted for up to 30 km of essentially thin-skinned shortening since late Miocene times (Laubscher 1961(Laubscher , 1992Philippe et al. 1996;Affolter & Gratier 2004) and is still seismotectonically active (becker 2000;Lacombe & Mouthereau 2002;Edel et al. 2006). the JFtb is flanked to the sE by the flexural swiss Molasse foreland basin of the Alps whilst its most external elements encroach on the bresse and Upper rhine grabens ( Fig. 1; chauve et al. 1980;Dèzes et al. 2004).Evolution of the JFtb combined with the development of the Upper rhine Graben (UrG) and the bresse Graben, exerted strong control on the location of the repeatedly shifting watersheds between the rivers Danube, Doubs and rhine, which flow into the black sea, the Mediterran...

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“…The change of the regional stress field initiated a new tectonosedimentary regime. The synrift deposits and older strata in the central and southern segments were uplifted and partly eroded due to transpressional reactivation of these graben segments (e.g., Rotstein et al 2005;Rotstein and Schaming 2011). A number of thermal anomalies in the western part of the central and northern part of the URG are linked to different structural features such as zones of uplift (Baillieux et al 2013).…”

Section: Geological Settingmentioning

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Inferring the in situ stress regime in deep sediments: an example from the Bruchsal geothermal site

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Background: Knowledge of the ambient state of stress is of crucial importance for understanding tectonic processes and an important parameter in reservoir engineering. In the framework of the 2,500-m deep geothermal project of Bruchsal in the central part of the Upper Rhine Graben, new evidence is presented for the stress field in deep-seated sedimentary rocks. Methods: With a sophisticated data analysis based on the concept of critical stress ratios, we evaluate the quality and uncertainty range of earlier stress field models in the Bruchsal area. New data from borehole logging and leak-off tests in deep sediments are used to propose an alternative stress profile for this part of the Upper Rhine Graben.

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Tectonic implications of transpression and transtension: Upper Rhine Graben

Cited by 17 publications

References 35 publications

Transposing an active fault database into a seismic hazard fault model for nuclear facilities – Part 1: Building a database of potentially active faults (BDFA) for metropolitan France

Transposing an active fault database into a seismic hazard fault model for nuclear facilities – Part 1: Building a database of potentially active faults (BDFA) for metropolitan France

Response of drainage systems to Neogene evolution of the Jura fold-thrust belt and Upper Rhine Graben

Inferring the in situ stress regime in deep sediments: an example from the Bruchsal geothermal site

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