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    Crustal geometry of the central Skellefte district, northern Sweden - constraints from reflection seismic investigations

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    Dehghannejad, M.
    Bauer, T.
    Malehmir, A.
    Juhlin, Christopher
    Weihed, P.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Dehghannejad, M. and Bauer, T. and Malehmir, A. and Juhlin, C. and Weihed, P. 2012. Crustal geometry of the central Skellefte district, northern Sweden - constraints from reflection seismic investigations. Tectonophysics. 524-525: pp. 87-99.
    Source Title
    Tectonophysics
    DOI
    10.1016/j.tecto.2011.12.021
    ISSN
    0040-1951
    School
    Department of Exploration Geophysics
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37319
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    Abstract

    The Palaeoproterozoic Skellefte mining district in Sweden is one of the most important mining districts in Europe. As a part of a 4D geologic modeling project, three new sub-parallel reflection seismic profiles, with a total length of about 95. km, were acquired in the central part of the district. Processed seismic data reveal a series of gentle- to steeply- dipping reflections and a series of diffraction packages. The majority of reflections that extend to the surface can be correlated with geological features either observed in the field or interpreted from the aeromagnetic map. A set of south-dipping reflections represent inferred syn-extensional listric extensional faults that were inverted during subsequent crustal-shortening. Cross-cutting north-dipping reflections are correlated to late-compressional break-back faults. Flat-lying reflections in the central parts of the study area could represent lithological contacts within the Skellefte Group, or the contact between Skellefte Group rocks and their unknown basement. Flat-lying reflections occurring further north are inferred to originate from the top of the Jörn intrusive complex or an intrusive contact within it. So far unknown south- and north-dipping faults have been identified in the vicinity of the Maurliden deposit. Based on the seismic results, a preliminary 3D-model has been created in order to visualize the fault pattern and to provide a base for future 3D/4D modeling in the Skellefte district.

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