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Geological Magazine; May 2002; v. 139; no. 3; p. 331-341; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756802006568
© 2002 Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Article

Quaternary deformation of the Bajo Segura blind fault (eastern Betic Cordillera, Spain) revealed by high-resolution reflection profiling

P. ALFARO*,{ddagger}, J. M. ANDREU*, J. DELGADO*, A. ESTÉVEZ*, J. M. SORIA* and T. TEIXIDÓ{dagger}

* Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente, Universidad Alicante, Apdo. 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain
{dagger} Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Parc de Montjuïc, E-08038 Barcelona, Spain

{ddagger} Author for correspondence: pedro.alfaro{at}ua.es

The blind reverse Bajo Segura Fault is located at the eastern extreme of the Trans-Alboran shear zone (Betic Cordillera, southeast Iberian Peninsula). The surface expression of recent activity of this blind ENE–WSW fault is represented by coseismic surface anticlines and growth synclines on both sides of the anticlines. In the synclines, the deformation of the most recent Quaternary materials is obscured by a sedimentary unit more than 30 m thick which was deposited during the later part of the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene. The present study reports three high-resolution seismic profiles made in the northern growth syncline, which was the one developed most by the Bajo Segura Fault. In these seismic profiles we recognize the boundary between pre-growth strata and growth strata. This marker, Early Pliocene in age, dates the start of the activity of this blind reverse fault. The geometry observed in the seismic profiles of the syntectonic strata, dating from the Late Pliocene and Quaternary, indicates a limb rotation folding mechanism. On seismic profile 2, the complex geometry of the Benejúzar anticline forelimb can be attributed to several splay faults close to the surface of Bajo Segura Fault.

Key Words: active tectonics • blind faults • Betic Cordillera • seismic profiles






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