H Hajialibeigi
Abstract
The E-W trending deep-seated Balarud fault zone is formed the part of Mountain Front Fault in north of Andimeshk. This strucutre has been separated the Lurestan zone (in North) from the Dezful Embayment (in South) that has operated as a faulted zone. Several subsurfaial and surface anticlines are affected ...
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The E-W trending deep-seated Balarud fault zone is formed the part of Mountain Front Fault in north of Andimeshk. This strucutre has been separated the Lurestan zone (in North) from the Dezful Embayment (in South) that has operated as a faulted zone. Several subsurfaial and surface anticlines are affected by this fault zone. In this paper for some of these anticlines have been drawn the cross-sections that based on well data, interpreted seismic profiles and field observations. The geometrical characteristics of these anticlines analyzed from cross-sections. The achievement of these analyses is used for distinguishing the tectonics and the deformational pattern in the Balarud fault zone. These anticlines formed by following mechanism: detachment folding, fault-propagation folding and fault-bend folding. The change of the deformational style and type of these anticlines are related to present and absence of the intermedate detachment horizons and also contorted by influence of this fault zone. These anticlines that have less 100 km lengths are En echelon arrayeh, asymmetric, disharmonic, noncylindrical, convolute folds with SW vergence and helicoidally axial surfaces. The Lurestan zone is more folded than the Dezful Embayment zone. The Balarud fault zone is a sinistral simple shear zone due to influence of strike-slip fault with E-W trending in basement. It seams the strike-slip movement sinisteral component of deap-seated fault is provided a helicoidally geometry in the study area. Different mechanism of fault-related folds of these anticlines and the results of the demonstration of the style of layer folded confirm the helicoidally geometry. Direction of fault is generally due to North and gradually become vertical to subvertical in adjacent to basement. The Balarud fault zone is an oblique footwall-ramp system with oblique convergence and the Kazerun fault zone is also another member of this system. The sinistral and dextral movements respectively, have been caused by a part of the promontory of Arabian plate between these fault zones. A transition zone is formed that the structural geology process and tectonics mechanism in duration of this ramp are different. The Balarud fault zone is not continuous, and has been displaced by many strike-slip basement involved faults. A NW-SE basement fault (α fault) as a tear fault cuts the sheet of the Balarud fault parallel to the Kabir Kuh anticline.
H Hajialibeigi; S.A Alavi; J Eftekharnezhad; M Mokhtari; M.H Adabi
Abstract
The Kaseh Mast anticline located in the south of the Lurestan zone, is one of the small-scale anticlines in the Lurestan (in north) and the Dezful Embayment (in south) zones in the Zagros fold-thrust belt. This anticline and the adjacent anticlines are affected by the Balarud blind thrust fault zone, ...
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The Kaseh Mast anticline located in the south of the Lurestan zone, is one of the small-scale anticlines in the Lurestan (in north) and the Dezful Embayment (in south) zones in the Zagros fold-thrust belt. This anticline and the adjacent anticlines are affected by the Balarud blind thrust fault zone, which is a part of the Mountain Front Fault. The Mountain Front Fault is a major topographic front that be traced along the Zagros fold-thrust belt in the Izeh, Fars, Lurestan and Dezful Embayment. The field observations and geometric analysis indicated that the axial trend of the Kaseh Mast anticline has been changed and shows asymmetrical, noncylindrical and disharmonic fold, with vergence to southwest. The class of folding is 1C subclass of Ramsay's classification. To determine the geometry of the fold the termsof open for tightness, wide for aspect ratio and subrounded for relative curvature are suggested. In addition, this anticline is analyzed by using of geometrical models. Basically, this model allows quantitatively predicting the Balarud blind thrust fault zone trajectory and displacement from the geometric characteristics of this anticline. The comparison of the anticline with the theoretical fault-related folding models suggests the Kaseh Mast anticline as an Asymmetrical Detachment Fold that is affected by the Balarud fault zone. It is probable that the folding process of the Kaseh Mast anticline is in early states of the formation of a detachment fold. However, the folding mechanism of the adjacent anticlines is fault-propagation folding. The changing of the folding mechanisms of this anticline and the adjacent anticlines from detachment (in Kaseh Mast anticline) to fault-propagation folding (in the Siah Kuh and Chenareh anticlines) is probably referred to several parameters. These include the effect of thrust, the position of the Kaseh Mast anticline in Zagros fold-thrust belt, the distance of the anticlines related to the Balarud fault zone and the potentiality of the changing of the folding mechanisms of triple fault-related folding to each other.
