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Morphotectonics of the Orava Basin, Western Carpathians

Orava Basin it is intramontane depression filled by Neogene and Quaternary deposits (Birkenmajer 1978), which spread out on Polish and Slovakian territory (Fig. 1). Orava Basin is situated between different tectonic - facies units that belong to Inner and Outer Carpathians. The ground of depression and its surrounding is built of central flysch called in Slovakia Podtatranská Group (Gross et al. 1993) and Podhale Flysch in Poland. The other units are Pieniny Klippen Belt and Magura Nappe represented by Oravská Magura unit (Potfaj 2003) in Slovakia and Krynica unit in Poland. Tectonics structure was always the main issue of the Orava Basin geology. The Quaternary deposits make the ...

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