Analog Models of Flanking Structures and a Natural Example in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais



Título del documento: Analog Models of Flanking Structures and a Natural Example in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais
Revista: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000412240
ISSN: 0001-3765
Autors: 1
2
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Institucions: 1Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Escola de Minas, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais. Brasil
2Pattrol Investigacoes Geotecnicas, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brasil
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Període: Sep
Volum: 89
Número: 3
Paginació: 1431-1442
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental, aplicado
Resumen en inglés The aim of this study is to present analog models of flanking structures and to analyze the Fábrica Nova synform, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais, from a geometric point of view. We set up seven models using a linear viscous silicone and produced flanking structures with a shear velocity of 2 cm h-1. At different initial orientations with respect to the shear zone boundary, a rigid cross-cutting element with lubricated boundaries was deformed via sinistral bulk flow at a shear strain of γ = 1.28. The most interesting features of our experiments are the geometries of the different marker lines, which are heterogeneous and resulted from thickening and thinning of the silicone at the cross-cutting element terminations. To compare our analog models and the Fábrica Nova synform, we analyzed the outermost marker line of the analog models and the top surface of the Cauê Formation in the Paleoproterozoic metasediments. The best comparisons between the experiments and the natural example were obtained by our CIS90 model in terms of the flexure shape near the cross-cutting element and the cross-cutting element orientation. Thus, we suggest that the cross-cutting elements in both situations act as obstacles and consequently produce local perturbations in laminar flow
Disciplines Geociencias,
Ingeniería
Paraules clau: Geología,
Geotecnia,
Modelado geológico,
Pliegues colaterales,
Silicón
Keyword: Earth sciences,
Engineering,
Geology,
Geotechnics,
Geological modelling,
Flanking folds,
Silicon
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