Bitsminda Anticline

This chapter shows 2D time-migrated seismic profile through the Bitsminda anticline: southern part of the Kura foreland fold and thrust belt (Georgia). In the chapter, fault-related folding theories are used in structural interpretation of S-N trending seismic profile. Identification of stratigraphic units at a depth for seismic profiles is based on outcrop correlations and Bitsminda-1 borehole data. Interpreted seismic reflection profiles show that the Bitsminda anticline is a shallow fault-propagation fold with the front limbs broken by thrust faults. The fold shows a strongly normal dragged hanging wall block, and a less dragged footwall block. Syntectonic (or synorogenic) Middle and Upper Miocene strata are represented by shallow marine, predominantly, terrigenic fine clastics, limestones and marls with rare conglomeratic interbeds and sandstones and thick continental sediments.