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DOI | 10.1007/s11069-021-04791-w |
Red Sea faulting and salt diapirism as a potential geotechnical hazard in Jazan, southwest Saudi Arabia: inferences from gravity data | |
Ibrahim E.; Mogren S.; Qaysi S.; Abdelrahman K.; Ghrefat H.; Zaidi F.; Hakami A. | |
发表日期 | 2021 |
ISSN | 0921030X |
起始页码 | 2613 |
结束页码 | 2628 |
卷号 | 108期号:3 |
英文摘要 | The main objective of this study is to detect the subsurface extension of salt diapirs and structural deformations in the city of Jazan and its suburbs using gravity data. Salt diapirs are of economic importance, but they can also be geologic hazards. Our results show weak Bouguer anomalies at Jazan Port and Jazan Heritage Village, suggesting the intrusion of near-surface salt diapirs. These anomalies are not observed in regional gravity maps, indicating shallow depths of the interpreted salt diapirs. Edge-detection gravity maps clearly reveal that NW–SE and NE–SW trending fault systems dissect the area. The NW–SE trending faults dissect the city into a series of faults and tilted blocks that generally dip toward the Red Sea, and which are crosscut by a NE–SW transform shear zone at Jazan Heritage Village. The interpreted salt diapirs are controlled by rifting since the Miocene. It is suggested that the salt diapirs migrated vertically through the walls of NW-trending fault blocks to reach the surface in the old city of Jazan. The salt diapirs extend eastward, facilitated by lateral movement along the NE transform fault until they are stopped by the NW-trending uplifted blocks in the western side of the city. The interpreted halokinesys and faulting structures may be a potential geotechnical hazard that could affect the infrastructure and urban buildings in Jazan and its suburbs. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. |
关键词 | FaultingGravity dataJazan citySalt diapirsSouthwest Saudi Arabia |
语种 | 英语 |
来源期刊 | Natural Hazards
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/206288 |
作者单位 | Department of Geology and Geophysics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ibrahim E.,Mogren S.,Qaysi S.,et al. Red Sea faulting and salt diapirism as a potential geotechnical hazard in Jazan, southwest Saudi Arabia: inferences from gravity data[J],2021,108(3). |
APA | Ibrahim E..,Mogren S..,Qaysi S..,Abdelrahman K..,Ghrefat H..,...&Hakami A..(2021).Red Sea faulting and salt diapirism as a potential geotechnical hazard in Jazan, southwest Saudi Arabia: inferences from gravity data.Natural Hazards,108(3). |
MLA | Ibrahim E.,et al."Red Sea faulting and salt diapirism as a potential geotechnical hazard in Jazan, southwest Saudi Arabia: inferences from gravity data".Natural Hazards 108.3(2021). |
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