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    Integration of flower structures in strike-slip fault damage zones classification examples from the West-Congo belt and foreland

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    Nkodia, H.
    Miyouna, T.
    Boudzoumou, F.
    Delvaux, D.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    Geodynamics and mineral resources
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2021
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    Damage zones around strike-slip faults constitutes important site of earthquake initiation, propagation, rupture or barrier. They also constitute important sites that host and conduct fluids. Most investigations of these strike-slip damage zones focus on plan view geometries and little attention is paid to subsurface or profile geometries associated. Depending on the presence of a shortening or extensional component during deformation, strike-slip faults do not often show straight path in cross-section. Understanding the expression of damage zones in cross-section is therefore important in predicting subsurface strike-slip faults features. The Paleozoic red feldspathic sandstones of the Inkisi Group in the foreland of the West-Congo Belt show beautiful examples of strike-slip faults with damage zones in both the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Nkodia et al., 2020). These strike-slip faults are organized in two major faults system developed in a pure strike-slip regime. The oldest system is dominated by NNW SSE trending sinistral strike-slip faults and minor E W striking dextral strike-slip faults. The youngest system consists of dominant NE SW trending dextral strike-slip faults and minor NW SE trending sinistral strike-slip faults. Field investigation show four arrangement of flowers structures along the strike-slip faults: (i) those associated with wall damage zones; (ii) those associated with linking damage zones; (iii) those associated with tip damage zones; and (iv) hourglass flower structures. Further investigation of strike-slip faults in the Schisto-calaire Group of the West-Congo Belt show also similar flower structures arrangement in limestones. In the Inkisi Group, these arrangements are dependent on the fault growth and propagation. Both strike-slip faults system in the Inkisi Group show an evolving pattern, from closely spaced short faults segments, to highly spaced long faults segments with few interactions of pattern.
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    Nkodia, H.; Miyouna, T.; Boudzoumou, F.; Delvaux, D. (2021). Integration of flower structures in strike-slip fault damage zones classification examples from the West-Congo belt and foreland. , EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19 30 Apr 2021, EGU21-7016, DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7016.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/12759
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7016
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    Conference
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    Language
    eng
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