Tectonic Aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian System
Product code: SP298
Print publication date: 30/06/2008
Earth Structure Processes and Tectonics, Tectonics, Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862392526
Author/Edited by: Edited by S Siegesmund, B Fuegenschuh and N Froitzheim
Weight: 1.2kg
Number of pages: 456
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/298/1
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Product Code: SP298
Edited by S Siegesmund, B Fuegenschuh and N Froitzheim
The Alps, Carpathians and Dinarides form a complex, highly curved and strongly coupled orogenic system. Motions of the European and Adriatic plates gave birth to a number of ‘oceans’ and microplates that led to several distinct stages of collision. Although the Alps serve as a classical example of collisional orogens, it becomes clearer that substantial questions on their evolution can only be answered in the Carpathians and Dinarides. Our understanding of the geodynamic evolution of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian System has substantially improved and will continue to develop; this is thanks to collaboration between eastern and western Europe, but also due to the application of new methods and the launch of research initiatives.
The largely field-based contributions investigate the following subjects: pre-Alpine heritage and Alpine reactivation; Mesozoic palaeogeography and Alpine subduction and collision processes; extrusion tectonics from the Eastern Alps to the Carpathians and the Pannonian Basin; orogen-parallel and orogen-perpendicular extension; record of orogeny in foreland basins; tectonometamorphic evolution; and relations between the Alps, Apennines and Corsica.
Available on the Lyell Collection http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/298/1
Foreword: Stefan M. Schmid.
Introduction: analysing orogeny—the Alpine approach, S Siegesmund, B Fügenschuh & N Froitzheim
Geodynamic evolution of an Alpine terrane—the Austroalpine basement to the south of the Tauern Window as a part of the Adriatic Plate (eastern Alps), B Schulz, A Steenken & S Siegesmund
Exhumation and deformation history of the lower crustal section of the Valstrona di Omegna in the Ivrea Zone, southern Alps, S Siegesmund, P Layer, I Dunkl, A Vollbrecht, A Steenken, K Wemmer & H Ahrendt
Evolution of an Early Permian extensional detachment fault from synintrusive, mylonitic flow to brittle faulting (Grassi Detachment Fault, Orobic Anticline, southern Alps, Italy), N Froitzheim, J F Derks, J M Walter & D Sciunnach
Post-Variscan to Early Alpine sedimentary basins in the Tauern Window (eastern Alps), P Veselá, B Lammerer, A Wetzel, F Söllner & A Gerdes
The Meliata suture in the Carpathians: regional significance and implications for the evolution of high-pressure wedges within collisional orogens, R D Dallmeyer, F Neubauer & H Fritz
Subduction-related metamorphism in the Alps: review of isotopic ages based on petrology and their geodynamic consequences, A Berger & R Bousquet
Tectonic evolution of the northwestern Internal Dinarides as constrained by structures and rotation of Medvednica Mountains, North Croatia, B Tomljenović, L Csontos, E Márton & P Márton
Tertiary cooling and exhumation history in the Maramures area (internal eastern Carpathians, northern Romania): thermochronology and structural data, H R Gröger, B Fügenschuh, M Tischler, S M Schmid & J P T Foeken
The western termination of the SEMP Fault (eastern Alps) and its bearing on the exhumation of the Tauern Window, C L Rosenberg & S Schneider
A crustal-scale cross-section through the Tauern Window (eastern Alps) from geophysical and geological data, B Lammerer, H Gebrande, E Lüschen & P Veselá
Neotectonic faulting, uplift & seismicity in the central and western Swiss Alps, M Ustaszewski & O A Pfiffner
On the role and importance of orogen-parallel and -perpendicular extension, transcurrent shearing, and backthrusting in the Monte Rosa nappe and the Southern Steep Belt of the Alps (Penninic zone, Switzerland and Italy), J Pleuger, T J Nagel, J M Walter, E Jansen & N Froitzheim
Metamorphic evolution of a very low- to low-grade metamorphic core complex (Danubian window) in the South Carpathians, M Ciulavu, R Ferreiro Mählmann, S M Schmid, H Hofmann, A Seghedi & M Frey
Tectonics and sedimentation during convergence of the ALCAPA and Tisza–Dacia continental blocks: the Pienide nappe emplacement and its foredeep (N. Romania), M Tischler, L Matenco, S Filipescu, H R Gröger, A Wetzel & B Fügenschuh
Calcareous nannofossil age constraints on Miocene flysch sedimentation in the Outer Dinarides (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro), T Mikes, M Báldi-Beke, M Kázmér, I Dunkl & H Von Eynatten
Tertiary subduction, collision and exhumation recorded in the Adula nappe, central Alps, T J Nagel
Metamorphism of metasediments at the scale of an orogen: a key to the Tertiary geodynamic evolution of the Alps, R Bousquet, R Oberhänsli, B Goffé, M Wiederkehr, F Koller, S M Schmid, R Schuster, M Engi, A Berger & G Martinotti
Northern Apennine–Corsica orogenic system: an updated overview, G Molli
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