QUANTIFICATION OF PRESENT-DAY VERTICAL DI SPLACEMENTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN ALPS AND SOUTHERN JURA BY LEVELINGS COMPARISON - 1ST ANALYSIS

Authors
JOUANNE F MENARD G
Citation
F. Jouanne et G. Menard, QUANTIFICATION OF PRESENT-DAY VERTICAL DI SPLACEMENTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN ALPS AND SOUTHERN JURA BY LEVELINGS COMPARISON - 1ST ANALYSIS, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Mecanique, physique, chimie, astronomie, 319(6), 1994, pp. 691-697
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Mecanique, physique, chimie, astronomie → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518069
Volume
319
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Part
2
Pages
691 - 697
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8069(1994)319:6<691:QOPVDS>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
The vertical displacement rates calculated by levellings comparison in the southern Jura Mountains and north-western Alps show regional tend encies correlated with the localization of the ramps that structured t he studied area. We propose then that vertical displacements are cause d by the present-day activity of cover thrusts (External Jura Mountain s, southern Molasse Basin) or crustal discontinuities like the thrust of the Internal Jura above the External Jura or the Belledonne massif thrust.