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Attempt to Dating of Accretion in the West Carpathian Flysch Belt: Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology of Tuff Layers
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Geolines
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January 1, 2006
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- Botor, Dariusz; Dunkl, IstvÃ; ¡; n; Rauch-Wlodarska, Marta; Eynatten, Hilmar von
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The Carpathians are a part of the European Alpine chain created by convergence and collision of the European and African plates (Golonka et al. 2000). The Outer Western Carpathians are a north-verging fold-and-thrust belt composed largely of Lower Cretaceous to Lower Miocene flysch sediments arranged into stacked complex of several nappes (from top to bottom: Magura, Dukla and Fore-Magura, Silesian, Sub-Silesian and Skole nappes. The tectonic evolution of the Outer Carpathians is subdivided into two successive shortening events: 1) NNW-(N) directed and 2) NE-(NNE) directed (Aleksandrowski 1989, Decker et al. 1997). During the first event the folding and thrusting started in the most inner, ...