The Role of Strike-Slip Tectonics in the Leinetal Graben, Lower Saxony

Autor: Tanner, David, Leiss, Bernd, Vollbrecht, Axel, Kallweit, Wiebke, Meier, Silke, Oelrich, Asdis, Reyer, Dorothea
Zdroj: Geotectonic Research; 20080601, Vol. 95 Issue: 0 p166-168, 3p
Abstrakt: A detailed examination and interpretation of outcrop data suggest the Leinetal Graben is dissected and partly bounded by strike-slip faults. We envisage a two-part tectonic history in which firstly Cretaceous N-S compression caused east-west extension (the bounding faults of the Leinetal Graben) and dextral strike-slip on the Ahlsburg Lineament. Later, the major stress axes rotated anticlockwise, so that the maximum horizontal stress was oriented NW-SE. The bounding graben faults and the Ahlsburg Lineament were then subject to sinistral shearing. The last stress phase is similar to the present-day situation.
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