LATE VARISCAN DUCTILE NORMAL FAULTING IN COASTAL VENDEE, MASSIF ARMORICAIN, FRANCE

Authors
GEOFFROY L
Citation
L. Geoffroy, LATE VARISCAN DUCTILE NORMAL FAULTING IN COASTAL VENDEE, MASSIF ARMORICAIN, FRANCE, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 2, Mecanique, physique, chimie, sciences de l'univers, sciences de la terre, 317(9), 1993, pp. 1237-1243
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 2, Mecanique, physique, chimie, sciences de l'univers, sciences de la terre → ACNP
ISSN journal
07644450
Volume
317
Issue
9
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1237 - 1243
Database
ISI
SICI code
0764-4450(1993)317:9<1237:LVDNFI>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Variscan ductile normal faulting is described in the formations of Les Sables-d'Olonne (Vendee coast, France). The observed structures are l ocalized in gneisses at the base of a metasedimentary pile. They chara cterize an eastward normal ductile shear with a dextral component. Thi s tectonic event, which postdates a westward tangential kinematic epis ode, is probably the western exression of the late Massif Central duct ile normal shears.