Active tectonics and Quaternary basin formation along the Vienna Basin Transform fault

Decker, Kurt; Peresson, Herwig; Hinsch, Ralph

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.04.012

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“…3 Tectonic sketch map of Germany sensu lato with the recent tectonic regime in principal structural units. Modified after Cloetingh et al (2005), Decker et al (2005), Gautier (2003), Geluk et al (1994, Thybo (1997), Franzke (2001, 2003), Ziegler and Dèzes (2006). Data concerning the tectonic regime derived from the World Stress Map Database (Heidbach et al 2016).…”

Section: Regional Tectonic Setting and Seismicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of Germany—version 2016, considering the range of epistemic uncertainties and aleatory variability

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Stromeyer

Bosse

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Bull Earthquake Eng

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The basic seismic load parameters for the upcoming national design regulation for DIN EN 1998-1/NA result from the reassessment of the seismic hazard supported by the German Institution for Civil Engineering (DIBt). This 2016 version of the national seismic hazard assessment for Germany is based on a comprehensive involvement of all accessible uncertainties in models and parameters and includes the provision of a rational framework for integrating ranges of epistemic uncertainties and aleatory variabilities in a comprehensive and transparent way. The developed seismic hazard model incorporates significant improvements over previous versions. It is based on updated and extended databases, it includes robust methods to evolve sets of models representing epistemic uncertainties, and a selection of the latest generation of ground motion prediction equations. The new earthquake model is presented here, which consists of a logic tree with 4040 end branches and essential innovations employed for a realistic approach. The output specifications were designed according to the user oriented needs as suggested by two review teams supervising the entire project. Seismic load parameters, for rock conditions of v S30 = 800 m/s, are calculated for three hazard levels (10, 5 and 2% probability of occurrence or exceedance within 50 years) and delivered in the form of uniform hazard spectra, within the spectral period range 0.02-3 s, and seismic hazard maps for peak

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Section: Regional Tectonic Setting and Seismicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of Germany—version 2016, considering the range of epistemic uncertainties and aleatory variability

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Stromeyer

Bosse

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Bull Earthquake Eng

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“…The basin is characterized by four distinct tectonic phases; (1) Early Miocene piggyback basin, (2) Middle-Late Miocene pull-apart basin, (3) Late Miocene-Pliocene compression and basin inversion, and (4) Quaternary basin formation Decker et al 2005;Peresson and Decker 1997a, b;Salcher et al 2012;Seifert 1992;Strauss et al 2006). Each phase is associated with a distinctive geographic axis of subsidence.…”

Section: Geologic Settingmentioning

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“…Structural styles within the pull-apart were dominated by NE-SW trending sinistral strikeslip duplexes and en-echelon listric normal faults with a left-stepping geometry at the Vienna Basin transfer fault (Royden 1985(Royden , 1988Decker et al 2005). The main tectonic elements are the Steinberg fault (5.6 km normal offset), the Leopoldsdorf fault (4.2 km normal offset), the Laksary fault, the Farsky fault, and the Lanzhot-Hrusky fault (Čekan et al 1990;Wessely et al 1993;Decker et al 2005) (Figs. 1, 6).…”

Section: Middle-late Miocene Pull-apart Basinmentioning

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“…3) since c. 250-300 ka (Salcher et al 2012) at a releasing bend along the slow moving sinistral strike-slip faults (1-2 mm/year; Grenerczy et al 2000;Decker et al 2005). The Vienna Basin transfer fault system (VBTF) corresponds to a zone of moderate seismicity, proving the continued activity of the fault zone.…”

Section: Quaternary Basinsmentioning

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“…1). It is interpreted as a classical thin-skinned pull-apart structure formed during Miocene lateral extrusion of the Eastern Alps (e.g., Mann et al 1983Mann et al , 1995Royden 1985;Decker et al 2005;Hinsch et al 2005). The rhombic basin is about 200 km long and 60 km wide, and formed mainly along the sinistral Vienna Basin transfer system (Royden 1985;Wessely 1988;Decker 1996;Decker and Peresson 1996;Strauss et al 2006).…”

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A detailed reconstruction of late Oligocene and Early Miocene thrusting at the leading edge of the East Alpine fold-thrust belt is achieved from well data, seismic, and interpretative cross sections. Data are used for constraining the paleogeographic positions of the Alpine thrusts, quantifying in-sequence/out-of-sequence thrust distances, assessing the timing of thrust propagation from structurally higher units into more external ones, and estimating thrust velocities. Results are depicted in five palinspastic maps for time slices betweeñ 26 Ma and~16 Ma. The termination of foreland-propagating thrusting at the Alpine front is apparently controlled by the subcrop topography of the European basement, which includes a major recess in the east leading to a diachronic along-strike termination of foreland-propagating thrusting with younger thrust ages and higher in-sequence thrust distances in the east. Early locking of foreland-propagating thrusting in the west causes prominent out-of-sequence thrusts which add to the in-sequence thrust distances there. Continuing consecutive detachment of foreland units in the east occurs at rather fast propagation velocities with time intervals between foreland-thrust-propagations ranging between 0.1 and 0.7 Ma. The resulting increase of in-sequence thrust distances from west to east is balanced by out-of-sequence thrusts in the west. The total amount of late Oligocene to Early Miocene thrusting is quantified with a minimum of 51 km. Average thrust velocities range between 4.6 and 5.2 mm/yr. This rate refers to the movement of the basal thrust at the leading edge of the fold-thrust belt, which occurs contemporaneous with the eastward lateral extrusion of the Eastern Alps in the hinterland.

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Active tectonics and Quaternary basin formation along the Vienna Basin Transform fault

Cited by 116 publications

References 27 publications

The probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of Germany—version 2016, considering the range of epistemic uncertainties and aleatory variability

The probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of Germany—version 2016, considering the range of epistemic uncertainties and aleatory variability

Polyphase tectonic subsidence evolution of the Vienna Basin inferred from quantitative subsidence analysis of the northern and central parts

Quantifying Early Miocene in-sequence and out-of-sequence thrusting at the Alpine-Carpathian junction

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