Actividad neotectónica de la Falla de Alentejo-Plasencia en Extremadura (Macizo Hespérico).

Villamor, P. ^[1] ; Capote, R. ^[1] ; Tsige, M. ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  
  Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  
  Madrid, España
Localización: Geogaceta, ISSN 0213-683X, Nº. 20, 4, 1996 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Comunicaciones presentadas en el IV Congreso Nacional de Geología, Alcalá de Henares, 1996), págs. 925-928
Idioma: español
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- Neotectonic activity of the Alentejo-Plasencia fault in Extremadura (Hesperian Massif)
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- Signs of recent tectonic activity are found at the Extremadura sector of Alentejo-Plasencia fault. This fault was active during the alpine compressional period as a sinistral strike-slip fault at the foreland of a collisional zone and presents sorne activity from the Miocene to the Quaternary. Upper «Raña» deposits of Early Villafranquian age, present an around-2-meter-vertical-displacement at the north border of Alburquerque granitic massif. Clase to this point old fluvial terraces of unknown age are folded and faulted, and low terraces (3 m above present river course) are jointed. In the tertiary Cañaveral pull-apart basin, at the Alcantara reservoir border, the fault disrupts a Tagus river fluvial terrace, which lies 80 m above the river course and has a probable Middle Pleistocene age. All these observations imply a vertical displacement which could be related to a slip rate less than 0.001 mm/year. lf this fault is compared with other active faults of the Hesperian Massif, such as the Bragança-Manteigas one, it becomes clear that Alentejo-Plasencia fault is less active. There are though paleoseismicity structures associated to the Alentejo-Plasencia fault, such as liquefaction features.