Neotectonics of the Polish Carpathians in the light of geomorphic studies: a state of the art

Title:

Neotectonics of the Polish Carpathians in the light of geomorphic studies: a state of the art

Creator:

Zuchiewicz, Witold

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Subject:

Geologie. Meteorologie. Klimatologie, tektonika, čtvrtohory, geotectonics, Quaternary, Karpaty (Polsko : pohoří : oblast), Carpathian Mountains Region (Poland), neotectonics, morphotectonics, recent stress field, 7, and 551

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Description:

Neotectonics of the Carpathians used to be studied extensively, particular attention being paid to the effects of large-scale domal uplifts and open folding above marginal zones of thrusts and imbricated map-scale folds, and rarely to the characteristics of young faulting. Neotectonic faults tend to be associated with the margins of the Orava-Nowy Targ Basin, superposed on the boundary between the Inner and Outer Western Carpathians, as well as with some regions within the Outer Carpathians. The size of Quaternary tilting of the Tatra Mts. on the sub-Tatric fault were estimated at 100 to 300 m, and recent vertical crustal movements of this area detected by repeated precise levelling are in the range of 0.4-1.0 mm/yr in rate. Minor vertical block movements of oscillatory character (0.5-1 mm/yr) were detected along faults cutting the Pieniny Klippen Belt owing to repeated geodetic measurements performed on the Pieniny geodynamic test area. In the western part of the Western Outer Carpathians, middle and late Pleistocene reactivation of early Neogene thrust surfaces was suggested. Differentiated mobility of reactivated as normal Miocene faults (oriented (N-S to NNW-SSE and NNE-SSW) in the medial portion of the Dunajec River drainage basin appears to be indicated by the results of long-profile analyses of deformed straths, usually of early and middle Pleistocene age. Quaternary uplift of the marginal part of the Beskid Niski (Lower Beskidy) Mts. (W-E to WNW-ESE), in the mid-eastern part of the Outer Western Carpathians of Poland, was estimated at 100-150 m, including no more than 40 m of uplift after the Elsterian stage. The state of research into young faulting of the Outer Carpathians of Poland is still far from sufficient., Witold Zuchiewicz., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

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Source:

Acta geodynamica et geomaterialia : | 2009 Volume:6 | Number:3 (155)

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