Brittle tectonics in the northwestern Alps: remote sensing applications

Matteo Massironi; Paolo Baggio; Giorgio Vittorio Dal Piaz; Rosa Loizzo

doi:10.1117/12.298158

30 December 1997 Brittle tectonics in the northwestern Alps: remote sensing applications

Matteo Massironi, Paolo Baggio, Giorgio Vittorio Dal Piaz, Rosa Loizzo

Proceedings Volume 3222, Earth Surface Remote Sensing; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298158
Event: Aerospace Remote Sensing '97, 1997, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

In the North Western sector of the Alps an intense brittle tectonics overprints the nappe stack and related ductile deformations. On a regional scale, different brittle structural sets can be identified. The main purpose of this work was to test the reliability of optical and SAR data to identify new lineaments and to test their mutual interference in a collisional orogenic belt. ERS-1 Geocoded Terrain Correct data, provided by the Italian Processing and Archiving Facility (I-PAF) were analyzed and compared with optical data. These products were verified to be essentially complementary by geological interpretation. As an integrate result, the lineament length and orientation fit well the kinematic model of the study area, obtained through field analysis and apatite fission track datations (AFT) on differential uplift. Moreover it was also identified a close relationship between lineament sets and deep-seated gravitational slope deformations.

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Matteo Massironi, Paolo Baggio, Giorgio Vittorio Dal Piaz, and Rosa Loizzo "Brittle tectonics in the northwestern Alps: remote sensing applications", Proc. SPIE 3222, Earth Surface Remote Sensing, (30 December 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298158

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