The Sudetic Marginal Fault: a young morphophotectonic feature at the NE margin of the Bohemian Massif, Central Europe

Title:

The Sudetic Marginal Fault: a young morphophotectonic feature at the NE margin of the Bohemian Massif, Central Europe

Creator:

Badura, Janusz, Zuchiewicz, Witold, Štěpančiková, Petra, Przybylski, Bogusław, Kontny, Bernard, and Cacoń, Stefan

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:66e6ce7b-0cef-4767-82bb-dce257c98391
uuid:66e6ce7b-0cef-4767-82bb-dce257c98391
issn:1214-9705

Subject:

Geologie. Meteorologie. Klimatologie, geodynamika, geodynamics, Polsko jihozápadní, Čechy severovýchodní (Česko), Poland, Bohemia, Northeastern (Czechia), morphotectonics, digital elevation models, drainage basin parameters, Sude tic Marginal Fault, 7, and 551

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Description:

We analysed a nearly 133-km-long portion of the Sudetic Marginal Fault (SMF) in Poland (99.7 km) and the Czech Republic (33.8 km), comprised between Złotoryja in the NW and Jesenik in the SE. The fault trace has been subdivided into fifteen segments showing different orientation (N29°W to N56°W, and even N111°W SE of Złoty Stok), geological setting, length (8.8-22.9 km in Poland and 1.4-7.5 km in the Czech Republic), and height of the fault- and fault-line scarps (5-75 m to 200-360 m). Orientation of the entire fault trace approaches N41° W, and the mountain front sinuosity amounts to 1.051. Individual fault segments bear a flight of two to five tiers of triangular facets, showing differentiated state of preservation and degree of erosional remodelling. The highest triangular facets are confined to Rychlebské (Złote) and Sowie Mts. This tiering points to at least five episodes of uplift of the SMF footwall, starting shortly after 31 Ma, i.e. after basalts of the Sichów Hills area were displaced by the fault, and most probably postdating 7-5 Ma time interval, during which rapid cooling and exhumation of the Sowie Góry Mts. massif took place. Morphometric parameters of 244 small catchment areas of streams that dissect the fault scarp include, i.a. elongation, relief, and average slope of individual catchment areas, together with values of the valley flo or width to valley height ratios. These figures point to moderate tectonic activity of the SMF and allow us to conclude about Quaternary uplift, particularly important in the Sowie and Rychlebské (Złote) segments., Janusz Badura, Witold Zuchiewicz, Petra Štěpančiková, Bogusław Przybylski, Bernard Kontny and Stefan Cacoń., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Source:

Acta geodynamica et geomaterialia : | 2007 Volume:4 | Number:4 (148)

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