Application of geomorphological indexes in the neotectonic active piedmontof Mendoza (32º s)
Keywords:
Andean orogenic front, Neotectonic, Geomorphology, Seismic hazardAbstract
In this study we apply three different geomorphological indexes (Sinuosity of mountain front, river longitudinal gradient and basin shape) as indicator of tectonic activity in different basins of the Mendoza piedmont where active tectonic zones are recognized. A strong correlation exits among obtained results of different analyzed indexes what allow to validate the utility of these techniques to evidence the neotectonic activity of the Mendocinian piedmont. These findings indicate deformation is being accumulated in the southern sector of the Mendoza piedmont. Besides, they reveal that this region is divided in several active tectonic sectors remarked by the geomorphological indexes.
Downloads
References
Alipoor, R., M. Poorkermani, M. Zare, R. El Hamdouni, (2011). Active tectonic assessment around Rudbar Lorestan dam site, High Zagros Belt, SW of Iran. Geomorphology, 128, 1-14.
Alonso-Henar, J., J.A. Álvarez-Gómez, J.J. Martínez-Díaz, (2014). Constraints for the recent tectonics of the El Salvador Fault Zone, Central America Volcanic Arc, from morphotectonic analysis. Tectonophysics, 623,1–13.
Alvarado, P.,and S. Beck, (2006). Source characterization of the San Juan (Argentina) crustal earthquakes of 15 January 1944 (Mw 7.0) and 11 June 1952 (Mw 6.8): Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 243, 615–631.
Alvarado P., S. Beck, G. Zandt, (2007). Crustal structure of the south-central Andes Cordillera and Backarc region from regional waveform modeling. Geophys. J. Int. Tectonics and geodynamics
Astini, R. A. (1990). Formación Punta Negra: Un abanico submarino o un complejo deltaico de plataforma. Actas 3° Reunión Argentina de Sedimentología, 19-24. San Juan.
Avouac, J. P., (2003). Mountain building, erosion and the seismic cycle in the Nepal Himalaya. Advances In Geophysics, 46, 1-80.
Bastias, H., (1984). The Precordilleran active overthrust belt, San Juan Province, Argentina: Geological Society of America, Fieldtrip Guidebook prepared by University of Nevada, Reno: 354-386.
Bastias, H., G. Tello, L. Perucca, J. Paredes, (1993). Peligro sísmico y neotectónica. XII Congreso Geológico Argentino y II Congreso de Exploración de Hidrocarburos, Mendoza. Geología y Recursos Naturales de Mendoza – V. A. Ramos (Ed.). Relatorio: 645-658.
Bordonaro, O. and E. Liñán (1994). Some Middle Cambrian agnostoids from the Precordillera Argentina. Revista Española de Paleontología, 9(1), 105-114.
Bordonaro, O. L., M.Beresi, M.Keller (1993). Reinterpretación estratigráfica del Cámbrico del area de San Isidro, Precordillera de Mendoza. XII Congreso Geológico Argentino y II Congreso de Exploración de Hidrocarburos. Actas II: 12-19. Buenos Aires.
Brooks, B., M. Bevis, R. Smalley, E. Kendrick, R. Manceda, E. Lauría, R. Maturana, y Araujo, M., (2003). Crustal motion in the Southern Andes (26°–36°S): Do the Andes behave like a microplate? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3), 4(10)
Bull, W.B. and L.D. McFadden, (1977). Tectonic geomorphology north and south of the Garlock fault, California. In: Doehering, D.O. (Ed.), Geomorphology in arid regions. Proceedings at the Eighth Annual Geomorphology Symposium. State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, 115– 138.
Bull, W.B., (2009). Tectonically Active Landscapes. Wiley -Blackwell Publishing, USA, 326.
Burbank, D.W. andR.S. Anderson, (2001). Tectonic Geomorphology. Backwell Science: 274 p. Oxford.
Costa, C., (2000). Quaternary deformation at the central Andes Orogenic Front and Foreland regions of Argentina. Proceedings of the Hokudan International Symposium on Active Faulting, 59-64, Japan.
Costa C. H., C.E. Gardini, H. Diederix, H.A. Cisneros E.A. Ahumada, (2006). The active andean orogenic front at the southernmost pampean flat-slab. “Backbone of the Americas” Mendoza, Argentina. Abstract with programs, Session No15-1.
Costa, C., E. Ahumada, F. Vazquez, D. Kroehling(2015). Holocene shortening rates of an Andean-front thrust, Southern Precordillera, Argentina. Tectonophysics 664, 191e201.
Cox, R.T., (1994). Analysis of drainage"basin symmetry as a rapid technique to identify areas of possible Quaternary tilt"block tectonics: An example from the Mississippi Embayment. Geological SocietyofAmericaBulletin, 106, 571–581.
Cuerda, A. (1988). Investigaciones estratigráficas en el Grupo Villavicencio, Precordillera de Mendoza y San Juan, República Argentina. 5° Congreso Geológico Chileno, Actas 2: 177-187.
Della Seta, M., M. Del Monte, P. Fredi, E. Miccadei, O. Nesci, G. Pambianchi, T. Piacentini y F. Troiani, (2008). Morphotectonic evolution of the Adriatic piedmont of the Apennines: An advancement in the knowledge of the Marche-Abruzzo border area. Geomorphology, 102,119 – 129.
Gallardo, G., S.Heredia, A.Maldonado, (1988). Depósitos carbonáticos alóctonos, Miembro superior de la Formación Empozada, Ordovícico superior de la Precordillera de Mendoza. 5º Congreso Geológico Chileno, I: 37-53. Santiago.
García, V.H., C. Guzmán, D.L. Yagupsky, E.O. Cristallini F. Bechis, (2006). Control de la erosión fluvial sobre una faja de corrimientos en crecimiento. Resultados de modelos análogos. Serie D (10) de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 62-69.
García, V. H., (2010). Modelado de las interacciones entre procesos de erosión y sedimentación fluvial y el crecimiento de estructuras neotectónicas. Tesis Doctoral. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires.
González Bonorino, G., (1973). Sedimentology and paleogeography of a Devonian turbidite basin in Argentina. Master Science Thesis, Mc Master University, 137 p. (inédito). Canadá.
González Díaz, E. F. y L.E. Fauque, (1993). Geomorfología. XII Congreso Geológico Argentino y II Congreso de Exploración de Hidrocarburos, Mendoza. Geología y Recursos Naturales de Argentina.
Gutscher, M.A., W. Spakman, H. Bijwaard R. Engdahl, (2000). Geodynamics of flat subduction: seismicity and tomographic constraints from the Andean margin. Tectonics, 19,814–833.
Hack, J.T., (1973). Stream-profile analysis and stream-gradient index. Journal Res. U. S. Geological Survey. 1 (4), 421–429.
Harrington, H. J., (1941). Investigaciones geológicas en las Sierras de Villavicencio y Mal País, provincia de Mendoza. Boletín Dirección Nacional de Geología y Minería, 49, 1-54. Buenos Aires.
Harrington, H. J., A. F. Leanza, (1957). Ordovician trilobites of Argentina. Universidad de Kansas, SpecialPublication. I, 1-276.
Harrington, H., (1971). Descripcióngeológica de la Hoja 22c, "Ramblón", provincias de Mendoza y San Juan. Boletín No 114. Dirección Nacional de Geología y Minería, 81.
Heredia, S., (1990). Geología de la Cuchilla del Cerro Pelado, Precordillera de Mendoza, Argentina. Actas 11º Congreso Geológico Argentino (San Juan), II: 101-104, San Juan.
Hilley, G.E., M.R. Strecker, V.A. Ramos, (2004). Growth and erosion of fold-and-thrust belts, with an application to the Aconcagua Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Argentina. JournalofGeophysicalResearch, 109.
Instituto Nacional de Prevención Sísmica (INPRES),(1982). Microzonificación sísmica del Valle de Tulum, Provincia de San Juan. Resumen ejecutivo 120p.
Instituto Nacional de Prevención Sísmica (INPRES), (1995). Microzonificaciónsísmica del Gran Mendoza. Instituto Nacional de PrevenciónSísmica. Resumen Ejecutivo. PublicaciónTécnica, No. 19: 269 p. San Juan.
Keller, E.A. and N. Pinter, (1996). Active Tectonics. Earthquakes, Uplift and Landscape. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 338.
Keller, E.A. and N. Pinter, (2002). Active Tectonics. Earthquakes, Uplift, and Landscape. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, segunda edición, 362.
Kendrick, E.C., M. Bevis, R.F. Smalley, O. Cifuentes, F. Galban, (1999). Current rates of convergence across the Central Andes; estimates from continuous GPS observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 26: 541-544.
Kendrick, E., B.A. Brooks, M. Bevis, R. Smalley, E. Lauria, M. Araujo, H. Parra, (2006). Active orogeny of the South-Central Andes studied with GPS geodesy. Revista Asociación Geológica Argentina, 61 (4), 555-566.
Koons, P.O., (1989). The topographic evolution of collisional mountain belts: a numerical look at the Southern Alps, New Zealand. American JournalofScience, 289, 1041-1069.
Kokogian D. y Mancilla O. (1989). Análisis estratigráfico secuencial de la Cuenca Cuyana. En: Chebli G.A. y Spaletti, L.A. (Eds): Cuencas sedimentarias argentinas. Simposio del 10º Congreso geológico Argentino, 162-210. San Miguel de Tucumán.
Kokogian D. Fernandez Severo, F. Mosquera A. (1993) Las secuencias sedimentarias triásicas. En: Ramos V.A. (ed):Geología y Recursos Naturales de Mendoza, 1 (7), 65-78.
Kury, W. (1993). Características composicionales de la Formación Villavicencio, Devónico, Precordillera de Mendoza. Actas 12º Congreso Geológico Argentino y 2º Congreso de Exploración de Hidrocarburos, I:321-328. Buenos Aires.
Moreiras, S.M., L.B. Giambiagi, S. Spagnotto, S. Nacif, J. Mescua, R. Toural, (2014). El frente orogenico activo de los Andes centrales a la latitud de la ciudad de Mendoza (32º50’-33ºS) AndeanGeology, 41, 342-361. Mayo.
Moreiras S.M. and S.M. Páez, (2015). Historical damages and secondary effects related to intraplate shallow seismicity of Central Western Argentina. Geodynamic Processes in the Andes of Central Chile and Argentina. Geological Society of London, v. 399, 369-382. First published online February 19, 2014, doi: 10.1144/SP399.6.
Mugnier, J.L., P. Baby, B. Colleta, P. Vinou, P. Bale, P. Leturmy, (1997). Thust geometry controlled by erosion and sedimentation: a view from analogue models. Geology, 25, 427-430.
Ortiz, A. y J.J. Zambrano, (1981). La provincia geológica Precordillera Oriental. VIII Congreso Geológico Argentino, Actas III: 59-74.
Oviedo Reyes, J.A. (2015). GeomorfologíaTectónica del Sistema de Fallas del Zulia en el flanco occidental del Sinclinal del Zulia, Norte de Santander – Colombia. Tesis de Maestría, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Facultad de Ciencias Departamento de Geociencias.
Pardo Casas, F. and P. Molnar, (1987). Relative motion of the Nazca (Farallón) and South American Plates since Late Cretaceous time. Tectonics, 6 (3), 233-248.
Pérez-Peña, J.V., A. Azor, J.M. Azañón, E.A. Keller, (2010). Active tectonics in the Sierra Nevada (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain): Insights from geomorphic indexes and drainage pattern analysis. Geomorphology, 119, 74-87.
Persson, K. S., D. Garcia-Castellanos, D. Sokoutis, (2004). River transport effects on compressional belts: First results from an integrated analogue-numerical model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109 (B01409).
Pike, R.J., (2002). A Bibliography of Terrain Modeling (Geomorphometry), the Quantitative Representation of Topography—Supplement 4.0. USGS Open File Report 02!465, 158.
Ramos, V., (1988). The tectonics of the Central Andes; 30° to 33°S latitude, In Clark, S. and Burchfiel, C. (Eds.), Processes in Continental Lithospheric Deformation. Geological Society of America Specia lPaper 218: 31-54.
Ramos, V. A., (1996). Evolución tectónica de la Alta Cordillera de San Juan y Mendoza. En V. A. Ramos et al. (Eds.): Geología de la región del Aconcagua, provincias de San Juan y Mendoza. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Dirección Nacional del Servicio Geológico, Anales 24 (14), 447-460.
Ramos, V. A., E.O. Cristallini,D.J.Perez, (2002). The Pampean flat-slab of Central Andes. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 15, 59-78.
Rolleri, E. O., y P. Criado Roque, 1970. Geología de la Provincia de Mendoza. Actas 4as Jornadas Geológicas Argentinas (Mendoza, 1969), II: 1-60. Buenos Aires.
Salomon, E., S. Schmidt, R. Hetzel, F. Mingorance A. Hampel, (2013). Repeated folding during late holocene earthquakes on the La Cal thrust fault near Mendoza City (Argentina). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 103 (2A): 936-949.
Sato A.M. y Lambías E.J. 1993. El Grupo Choiyoi, provincia de San Juan:equivalente efusivo del Batolito de Colangûil. Actas 12 Congreso Geológico Argentino y 2 Congreso de Exploración de Hidrocarburos, 4, 156-165. Buenos Aires.
Schmidt, S., R. Hetzel, F. Mingorance V.A. Ramos, (2011). Coseismic displacements and Holocene slip rates for two active thrust faults at the mountain front of the Andean Precordillera (~33°S). Tectonics 30 (TC5011). doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011TC002932
Sepúlveda, E., H. López,L.Fauqué, (2001). Descripción geológica de la Hoja 3369-II Mendoza, provincia de Mendoza. Subsecretaría de Minería de la Nación. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Naturales. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Boletín N° 252.
Smalley Jr., R. and B. Isacks, (1987). A high-resolution local network study of the Nazca Plate Wadati- Benioff zone under Western Argentina. Journal of Geophysical Research 92, B13: 13.093- 13.912.
Van der Beek, P.A., B. Champel J.L. Mugnier, (2002). Control of detachment dip on drainage development in regions of active fault propagation folding. Geology, 30, 471-474.
Vázquez F.R., C.H.Costa,C.E.Gardini, (2017). Quaternary-active thrusts scarps tested as deformation markers by trishear models in the Southern Precordillera of Argentina. Quaternary International, Vol. 438, Part A, 5 May 2017, 65-79.
Vich, A.I. y A. Pedriani, (1993). 014.3. Programa de Investigación y Desarrollo: manejo Ecológico del Piedemonte. Mendoza. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente Urbanismo y ViviendaCentro Regional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CRICYT), Unidad de manejo Ecológico de Cuencas, Fase I: 154 p. Mendoza.
Willett, S.D., C. Beaumont, P. Fullsack, (1993). Mechanical model for the tectonics of doubly vergent compressional orogens. Geology, 21(4), 371-374.
Zapata, T. and R. Allmendinger, (1996). Thrust front zone of the Precordillera, Argentina: a thick-skinned triangle zone. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. (80), 359-381.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2017 Rafael Toural Dapoza, Stella M. Moreiras
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Starting in 2022 (Vol. 43 number 2) articles will be published in the journal under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
According to these terms, the material can be shared (copied and redistributed in any medium or format) and adapted (remixed, transformed and created from the material another work), provided that a) the authorship and the original source of its publication (journal and URL of the work), b) is not used for commercial purposes and c) the same license terms are maintained.
Prior to this date the articles were published in the journal under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY)
In both cases, the acceptance of the originals by the journal implies the non-exclusive assignment of the economic rights of the authors in favor of the editor, who allows reuse, after editing (postprint), under the license that corresponds according to the edition.
Such assignment means, on the one hand, that after its publication (postprint) in the GEOACTA Magazine of the Association of Geophysicists and Geodesists, the authors can publish their work in any language, medium and format (in such cases, it is requested that it be recorded that the material was originally published in this journal); on the other, the authorization of the authors for the work to be harvested by SEDICI, the institutional repository of the National University of La Plata, and to be disseminated in the databases that the editorial team considers appropriate to increase visibility. of the publication and its authors.
Likewise, the journal encourages the authors so that after their publication in the Journal of the Association of Geophysicists and Geodesists, they deposit their productions in other institutional and thematic repositories, under the principle that offering society scientific production and Unrestricted academic scholarship contributes to a greater exchange of global knowledge.
