Dear colleagues,

this is a general call-for-papers for a thematic issue in  
Tectonophysics entitled : Style of deformation and tectono-sedimentary  
evolution of fold-and-thrust belts and foreland basins: from nature to  
models

Leaning against a session in the next 2018 EGU (European Union of  
Geosciences) Vienna meeting, we aim at producing a thematic issue on  
this topic in Tectonophysics. We welcome papers either from  
participants to the session or from people interested in this topic  
but who are unable to attend the meeting.

Description :
Orogenic systems, including their external fold-and-thrust belts and  
foreland basin systems, evolve from the inversion and imbrication of  
former continental margins. Continental margins are characterized by  
displaying along-strike variations in the degree of inherited regional  
extension (i.e., from limited lithospheric stretching to full necking,  
leading to mantle exhumation and oceanic crust production). These  
differences have a fundamental impact on structural styles as well as  
the pre-shortening thermal state of the lithosphere. The presence of  
evaporitic sequences interacting during rift and post-rift is also a  
key parameter in the structural styles and deformation distribution of  
thrust sheets involving inverted basins.On the other hand, deformation  
can also be transferred ahead and downward of the shallow deformation  
front, leading to frontal imbrication of deep seated structures in  
cratonic forelands or the sub-thrust region of active fold-and-thrust  
belts.

Defining the correct structural style of fold-and-thrust belts and  
understanding the controlling factors are necessary steps towards  
predicting their long- and short-term evolution, with implications for  
crustal/lithospheric rheology, mountain building processes and seismic  
hazard, and for the correct assessment of their potential for  
hydrocarbon exploration. For these reasons, fold-and-thrust belts and  
adjacent foreland basin systems represent outstanding places to  
investigate (active) deformation and surface processes and the way  
these processes interact to shape mountain belts.

On a short-time scale, the pattern of deformation of fold-and-thrust  
belts provides information on crustal mechanics, the sequence of  
active faulting and its relation to large earthquakes; on a long-time  
scale, the structure and dynamics of the fold-and-thrust belt -  
foreland basin systems offers unique insights into the influence of  
extensional structural, thermal and rheological inheritance of the  
crust/lithosphere, together with coupling between surface and deep  
processes. Thermochronology has recently brought new constraints on  
paleo-burial, exhumation and vertical movements in general, as well as  
sediment routing in fold-and-thrust belt-foreland basin systems. In  
addition, 2D-3D mechanical modelling has been increasingly used as a  
tool to validate kinematic restorations and to test the influence of  
varying boundary conditions (including climate) and material rheology  
on mountain building at the lithospheric scale.

This Special Issue aims at collecting a number of contributions,  
including regional case studies as well as more topical works on  
seismology, mechanics, flexure, thermal evolution, structural geology,  
geomorphology, exhumation and paleo-elevation, sediment transport and  
mass balance, surface processes and basin dynamics during pre-, early  
and syn-collision stages, together with analogue or numerical  
modelling approaches. The volume will provide a modern, updated   
state-of-the-art on fold-and-thrust belts and orogenic basins and a  
timely forum for all disciplines concerned with building and shaping  
of orogenic wedges by tectonics and climate.

This Special Issue is sponsored by the International Lithosphere  
Program Task Force on Sedimentary Basins.


IMPORTANT :

*Deadline for committing to contribute and for submitting provisional  
(even short, 5-10 lines) abstracts : May 1st, 2018

This an important step to assess the expected number of contributions.

*Deadline for submitting manuscripts : December 31st, 2018

Contact : [log in to unmask]


All the best

Olivier, on behalf of Stefano (Mazzoli), Christoph (von Hagke),  
Matthias (Rosenau), Charlotte (Fillon) and Pablo (Granado)


Prof. Dr Olivier Lacombe
Head of DESIR 'Déformations, Sismotectonique, Imagerie, Relief' research team
Sorbonne Université, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie
Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris - ISTeP
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Boîte 129; 4, Place Jussieu
75252 PARIS Cedex 05, France
Tél : 33 1 44 27 71 80
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