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Olistostroms as Indicator of the Geodynamic Process (Northern Carpathians)
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Geolines
- Article date:
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January 1, 2006
- Author:
- Cieszkowski, Marek; Golonka, Jan
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Existence and transformation of the accretionary wedge in the southern in the Northern Carpathians are documented by occurrence of olistostroms. During the detail mapping and lithofacies investigations of deposits in a few main tectonic units of the Outer (Flysch) Carpathians the olistostroms has been identified. In Poland, Czech and Slovak Republic the olistostroms are known from the Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene flysch deposits of a few main tectonic units. Those units are the Skole, Subsilesian, Silesian, Dukla and Magura nappes as well as Pieniny Klippen Belt.
The term olistostrome is derived from the ancient Greek and means «slide-layen» (Cieszkowski and ...