Eo-Alpine metamorphism and the ‘mid-Miocene thermal event’ in the Western Carpathians (Slovakia): new evidence from multiple thermochronology

Danišík, Martin; Kohút, Milan; Evans, Noreen J.; McDonald, Brad

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“…The authors postulated the regional significance of this event by documenting it by means of AFT and apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology in numerous locations in the Variscan crystalline basement rocks of the Western Car-pathians, Pannonian Basin and the margin of the Eastern Alps. They linked the increased heat flux primarily to mantle upwelling and volcanic activity (Král et al 1987;Szabó et al 1992;Tari et al 1992;Danišík et al 2012). AFT data from the CCPB in the direct vicinity of the Branisko Mts, some 50-60 km to the ESE of the studied area, also show clear indication of thermal resetting (Danišík et al 2012).…”

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“…A potential source of higher heat flow during the Miocene in the Inner Western Carpathians is reported by Danišík et al (2008Danišík et al ( , 2010Danišík et al ( , 2012, who named it the "mid-Miocene thermal event". The authors postulated the regional significance of this event by documenting it by means of AFT and apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology in numerous locations in the Variscan crystalline basement rocks of the Western Car-pathians, Pannonian Basin and the margin of the Eastern Alps.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They linked the increased heat flux primarily to mantle upwelling and volcanic activity (Král et al 1987;Szabó et al 1992;Tari et al 1992;Danišík et al 2012). AFT data from the CCPB in the direct vicinity of the Branisko Mts, some 50-60 km to the ESE of the studied area, also show clear indication of thermal resetting (Danišík et al 2012). Although their data point to the presence of at least two age populations, the Miocene component (16-11 Ma) is very clearly distinguished.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition to the Paleogene sequence, Środoń et al (2006) and Danišík et al (2012) considered a deep burial by Neogene sediments as one of the likely heat sources. Although such possibility cannot immediately be rejected, this hypothesis does not find strong support.…”

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Thermal history of the Podhale Basin in the internal Western Carpathians from the perspective of apatite fission track analyses

Anczkiewicz¹,

Środoń²,

Zattin³

2013

Geologica Carpathica

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Abstract:The thermal history of the Paleogene Podhale Basin was studied by the apatite fission track (AFT) method. Twenty four Eocene-Oligocene sandstone samples yielded apparent ages from 13.8 ± 1.6 to 6.1 ±1.4 Ma that are significantly younger than their stratigraphic age and thus point to a post-depositional resetting. The thermal event responsible for the age resetting is interpreted as a combination of heating associated with mid-Miocene volcanism and variable thickness of Oligocene and potentially also Miocene sediments. Extending the mid-Miocene thermal event found in the Inner Carpathians into the Podhale Basin as a likely heat source suggests that the amount of denudation in the Podhale Basin determined only on the basis of heat related to the thickness of sedimentary sequence might have be significantly overestimated. Two samples from the western part of the basin that yielded 31.0 ± 4.3 and 26.9 ± 4.7 Ma are interpreted as having mixed ages resulting from partial resetting in temperature conditions within the AFT partial annealing zone. This observation agrees very well with reported vitrinite reflectance and illite-smectite thermometry, which indicate a systematic drop of the maximum paleotemperatures towards the western side of the basin.

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Thermal history of the Podhale Basin in the internal Western Carpathians from the perspective of apatite fission track analyses

Anczkiewicz¹,

Środoń²,

Zattin³

2013

Geologica Carpathica

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“…Its age might be related with so-called "Mid-Miocene thermal event" which caused resetting of the fission track ages some of the Oligocene rocks in the Podhale Basin (Danišik et al 2012;Anczkiewicz et al 2013).…”

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Palaeomagnetic results from the fold and thrust belt of the Western Carpathians: an overview

Márton

Grabowski

Tokarski

et al. 2015

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The Western Carpathians are separated into an Outer and Inner Carpathians (both comprising several nappe systems) by the extremely narrow and highly deformed Pieniny Klippen Belt. The main phase of deformation and thrusting took place during the Late Cretaceous in the Inner Carpathians, at the end of Cretaceous–Paleocene in the Pieniny Klippen Belt and in the Miocene in the Outer Carpathians. In this paper a large amount of palaeomagnetic results of different quality available from several nappe stacks and from overstep sequences were reviewed and interpreted in terms of tectonics. The data suggest that all three main units participated in two phases of anticlockwise rotation starting at 18.5 Ma, that is, the Outer Carpathian nappes in front of the already consolidated Alpine–Carpathian–Pannonian block became accreted to the block. Late Cretaceous nappe transport, Neogene uplift of ‘core mountains’ and possibly oroclinal bending of pre-Oligocene age can account for important differences in pre-Cenozoic palaeomagnetic declinations. Most of them exhibit less or no anticlockwise rotation suggested by the overstep sequences, implying pre-Cenozoic clockwise rotations of variable angles.

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Exhumation history of the Tatry Mountains, Western Carpathians, constrained by low‐temperature thermochronology

Śmigielski¹,

Sinclair

Stuart

et al. 2016

Tectonics

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This study tests alternative models for the growth of the Tatry Mountains (Central Western Carpathians) by the application of low-temperature thermochronology. Zircon (U + Th)/He ages from the north of the range are mostly between 48 and 37 Ma and indicate cooling prior to the onset of fore-arc sedimentation in the region (42-39 Ma). In contrast, zircon (U + Th)/He ages in the south of the range are around 22 Ma. Apatite fission track ages across the sampled sites range from 20 to 15 Ma. Apatite (U + Th)/He ages range from 18 to 14 Ma with little variation with elevation or horizontal location. Based on thermal modeling and tectonic reconstructions, these Miocene ages are interpreted as cooling in the hanging wall of a northward dipping thrust ramp in the current location of the sub-Tatric fault with cooling rates of 20°C/Myr at~22-14 Ma. Modeled cooling histories require an abrupt deceleration in cooling after~14 Ma to <5°C/Myr. This is associated with termination of deformation in the Outer Carpathians and is synchronous with the transition of the Pannonian Basin from a syn-rift to a postrift stage and with termination of N-S compression in the northern part of the Central Western Carpathians. Overall, the timing of shortening and exhumation is synchronous with the formation of the Outer Carpathian orogen and so the Miocene exhumation of the Tatry records retrovergent thrusting at the northern margin of the Alcapa microplate.

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Eo-Alpine metamorphism and the ‘mid-Miocene thermal event’ in the Western Carpathians (Slovakia): new evidence from multiple thermochronology

Cited by 20 publications

References 58 publications

Thermal history of the Podhale Basin in the internal Western Carpathians from the perspective of apatite fission track analyses

Thermal history of the Podhale Basin in the internal Western Carpathians from the perspective of apatite fission track analyses

Palaeomagnetic results from the fold and thrust belt of the Western Carpathians: an overview

Exhumation history of the Tatry Mountains, Western Carpathians, constrained by low‐temperature thermochronology

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