NEOTECTONIC DISLOCATIONS AT THE BARENTS SEA SHELF AND THEIR GENESIS ACCORDING TO THE MORPHOMETRY OF BATHYMETRY, SEISMIC SECTIONS AND THE DEEP MANTLE STRUCTURE

Abstract

The paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the morphometric attribute “general curvature” for the bathymetry of the Barents Sea, seismic and seismoacoustic data containing in the wave field patterns tectonic faults emerging to the surface, a fault network of the sedimentary cover confirmed by seismic surveys, and seismotomographic data showing the heterogeneous deep structure by the distribution of seismic wave velocities in the upper mantle. The analysis of these data showed the presence of a causal relation between rheologically heterogeneous and mobile blocks of the upper mantle and the crystalline part of the Earth’s crust with the deep fault network, emerging on the bottom surface and being a relief-forming factor that forms characteristic domains with different textures performed by the morphometric attribute “general curvature”.