%0 Journal Article
%A Romeo Briones, Ignacio
%A Capote del Villar, Ramón
%A Anguita, Francisco
%T Tectonic and kinematic study of a strike-slip zone along the southernmargin of Central Ovda Regio, Venus: Geodynamical implications forcrustal plateaux formation and evolution
%D 2005
%@ 0019-1035
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49720
%X The tectonic system of the southern margin of Central Ovda Regio, a crustal plateau which straddles Venus equator, has been interpreted asa dextral strike-slip array, on the basis of evidence clearly identifiable, as are Riedel fracture patterns of different scales, en échelon folds andbrittle strike-slip faults. This transcurrent regime developed two main shear belts (Inner and Outer, on respectively thicker and thinner crust),whose minimum dextral displacement has been estimated in 30–50 km. Since the up or downwelling models for plateau formation cannoteasily explain tectonic shears of this magnitude along their margins, an alternative hypothesis has been built, which stands on the proposedcollisional belt which could form Ovda northern border (King et al., 1998, Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 29, Abstract 1209; Tuckwell and Ghail,2002, Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 33, Abstract 1566). Within this framework, the shear would represent a transcollisional transcurrent zone,similar to the strike-slip zones produced in the foreland of the Himalayas–Tibet collision front. Eastern Ovda would be an independent areaof thickened crust, pushed to the SSE by the northern collision, with the deformation concentrated at its margins, and experiencing a shearstrain on its southern margin. None of the data, however, either supports nor helps to discard theoretical subduction events as a cause of thecollision. On the contrary, image relationships could be interpreted as evidence that the main shear deformation took place during the lastglobal resurfacing event on the planet.
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