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Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
Vol. 31 (1983), No. 2. (June), Pages 109-116

Study of Anticlines, Faults and Diapirs in the Central Eureka Sound Fold Belt, Canadian Arctic Islands: Preliminary Results

J. T. van Berkel, H. Hugon, W. M. Schwerdtner, J. L. Bouchez

ABSTRACT

Detailed geological mapping was carried out in a major fault zone and two large anticlines of the Central Eureka Sound Fold Belt, eastern Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic. All these structures contain evaporite diapirs with minimum horizontal diameters between 300 m and 4 km. The sense of bedding-parallel shear in the limbs of the anticlines is opposite to that of buckle folds formed by horizontal compression. Thus the anticlines may be clastic hoods of pre-Eurekan salt-walls rather than Eurekan compression folds. The main branch of the fault zone (Stolz Thrust) seems to have numerous lateral ramps or to be offset by short tear faults. Apart from equant to oval evaporite diapirs, the main branch of this fault zone contains long conformable masses of gypsum-anhydrite (Carboniferous Otto Fiord Formation) whose limestone interbeds are thrown into complex folds. The asymmetry of folding is compatible with the large-scale thrusting and thin-skinned tectonics of the Eurekan Orogeny.

ETUDE D'ANTICLINAUX, FAILLES ET DIAPIRS DANS LA EUREKA SOUND FOLD BELT CENTRAL, ILES ARCTIQUES CANADIENNES: RESULTATS PRELIMINAIRES

RESUME

Une zone de faille majeure et deux anticlinaux regionaux ont ete cartographies dans la chaine plissee du Detroit Eureka central (Est de l'ile Axel Heiberg, Arctique Canadien). L'ensemble de ces structures contiennent des diapirs evaporitiques circulaires a elliptiques d'un diametre horizontal minimum compris entre 300 m et 4 km. Dans le flanc des anticlinaux, des mouvements cisaillants paralleles a la stratification sont de sense contraire a ceux generalement observes dans des plis flexuraux formes par compression horizontale. De nombreux chevauchements secondaires et des decrochements decalant la zone de faille semblent etre associes a la faille principale (Stolz Thrust). En plus des diapirs de la zone de faille, la branche principale contient des lentilles de gypse-anhydrite (Formation carbonifere Otto Fiord) dont les interlits calcaires montrent un plissement complexe. L'asymetrie du plissement est compatible avec la vergence d'ensemble du chevauchement et la tectonique de membrane de la chaine Eurekienne.

Traduit par B. Collet


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