Precambrian basement control on joint domains in northwestern Ohio
Joint attitudes in Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian carbonates in northwestern Ohio reveal a marked north-south-trending joint domain boundary in Lucas and Wood Counties. East of the domain boundary, first-formed systematic joints trend N45/sup 0/W; west of this boundary, first-formed systematics trend N40/sup 0/E. The line of change in joint trends follows the Lucas County monocline-Bowling Green fault complex and the projected position of the Grenville front from the Canadian shield. Basement well information and gravity and magnetic data indicate a major change in Precambrian rock types across the domain boundary that is coincident with the projected position of the Grenville front. Observed joint patterns are interpreted to result from extensional tectonics associated with the evolution of the Findlay arch and Michigan basin. Recurrent movements on the Bowling Green fault during the early and middle Paleozoic may have been caused by reactivation of Grenville-age faults, which ultimately localized the joint domain boundary along the Lucas County monocline-Bowling Green fault trend.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Toledo, OH
- OSTI ID:
- 6962405
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8610158-
- Journal Information:
- Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States), Vol. 70:8; Conference: AAPG Eastern section meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 1 Oct 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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