Cloncurry Fault Zone: strain partitioning and reactivation in a crustal-scale deformation zone, Mt Isa Inlier

Austin, J. R. and Blenkinsop, Thomas G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9684-0749 2010. Cloncurry Fault Zone: strain partitioning and reactivation in a crustal-scale deformation zone, Mt Isa Inlier. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 57 (1) , pp. 1-21. 10.1080/08120090903416187

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Abstract

The Cloncurry Fault Zone is a north-northwest-trending zone of complex deformation over 100 km long and up to 7 km wide near the eastern edge of the Mt Isa Inlier. The zone includes mylonites in an anastomosing shear-zone system with variably plunging mineral lineations within a north-northwest subvertical girdle that formed synchronously with north-northwest- and south-southeast-plunging folds. No clear overprinting of lineations in different orientations is observed, and the complexity of the penetrative fabrics can be attributed to strain partitioning during east-northeast contraction, rather than requiring a more complex history of overprinting relations. The mylonites formed at temperatures of 350–500°C, below the 650°C metamorphic peak that occurred during the regional D2 event, and they are superimposed on Maramungee-aged granites (1555–1545 Ma), implying that the majority of fabrics formed during D3. D3 was followed by the development of a D4 sinistral Riedel strike-slip fault system involving east-southeast contraction, which was coincident with massive Na–Ca alteration and brecciation within the zone. Reactivation with a normal component of movement occurred some time after the Jurassic. The Cloncurry Fault Zone is a crustal-scale feature of the Mt Isa inlier that records strain partitioning and a deformation history lasting over 1.5 Ga.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Earth and Environmental Sciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QE Geology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Isan Orogeny, mylonite, Riedel shear, strain partitioning, strike-slip faulting, transpression
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
ISSN:	0812-0099
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 09:04
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/57123

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