Far‐field effects of Late Miocene subduction in the Eastern Carpathians: E‐W compression and inversion of structures in the Alpine‐Carpathian‐Pannonian region

Peresson, Herwig; Decker, Kurt

doi:10.1029/96tc02730

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“…However, subsidence results calculated in this study may be biased due to the fact of missing significant parts of the youngest sedimentary column. The latest Pannonian and Pliocene E-W compressional event resulted in basin inversion and sediment deformation (Decker and Peresson 1996;Peresson and Decker 1997a;Cloetingh et al 2006). Uplift of more than 200 m is assumed (Strauss et al 2006), which eroded Pannonian sediments.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Lee

Wagreich

2016

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Lee

Wagreich

2016

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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“…Exhumation rates have increased slightly again across much of the Eastern Alps. These general trends are possibly related to possible changes during the Central Europe reorganization of external stress field at 6 to 5 Ma (Horváth and Cloetingh, 1996;Peresson and Decker, 1997;Sanders and others, 1999;Gerner and others, 1999); however this signal is not very well resolved. Finally, in the Eastern Alps, the southern margin of the Tauern Window continues to exhume slowly.…”

Section: Plio-pleistocenementioning

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The Exhumation history of the European Alps inferred from linear inversion of thermochronometric data

Fox

Herman

Willett

et al. 2016

American Journal of Science

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ABSTRACT. Thermochronometric data collected across the Alps over the last three decades allows for investigation of the evolution of this orogen, which is subject to changes in climate and geodynamics. Exhumation rates are inferred from the thermochronometric ages using a statistical inversion method based on the fact that the distance a sample traveled since closure is equal to the integral of the exhumation rate from the present day to the age of the sample. Exhumation rates are assumed to be spatially correlated but are free to vary through time. This results in the quantification of exhumation rates across the Alps, since 32 Ma, along with assessments of the quality of these inferences. We find that exhumation rates are initially fast in the internal arc of the Western Alps at rates up to 0.8 km/Myr at 30 Ma, decreasing at 20 Ma to 0.3 km/Myr to remain slow to the present. At the same time, around 20 Ma, rates across the External Crystalline Massifs of Western Alps increase to 0.6 km/Myr. We also find that the onset of high exhumation rates in the Tauern Window and the Lepontine Dome occurs at around 20 Ma, a time characterized by major reorganizations in the Alpine chain. A general increase in exhumation rates at around 5 Ma over the entire Alps is not confirmed. Instead we find that the Western Alps exhibit a 2 to 3 fold increase in exhumation rate over the last 2 Ma, during a recent event not seen further east, in spite of very similar topographic characteristics. We attribute this strong signal to detachment of the European slab in the Western Alps, combined with efficient glacial erosion.

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“…c) Geologic cross-section through the Vienna Basin and the adjacent Alpine Foreland Basin (revised from Beidinger and Decker, 2014). (Decker, 1996;Fodor, 1995;Hohenegger et al, 2014;Hölzel et al, 2010;Peresson and Decker, 1997a;Piller et al, 2007;Wagreich and Schmid, 2002). Horizons mapped in this study are; top of the Pre-Neogene Basement, top of the Eggenburgian-Ottnangian, top of the early Karpatian, top of the late Karpatian, top of the early Badenian, top of the late Badenian, top of the Sarmatian, and top of the Pannonian.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, considering the uplift and erosion during the latest Pannonian and Pliocene (e.g. Peresson and Decker, 1997a), the Pannonian sediments were originally thicker than the present-day preserved thickness.…”

Section: Sedimentary Fill Of the Pull-apart Basin System (Middle -Latmentioning

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3D visualization of the sedimentary fill and subsidence evolution in the northern and central Vienna Basin (Miocene)

Lee¹,

Wagreich²

2016

AJES

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This study analyzes and visualizes data from 234 wells using a MATLAB-based program (BasinVis 1.0) for the sedimentary fill and subsidence evolution of the northern and central parts of the Vienna Basin. The sedimentary fills of seven selected horizons are shown in sediment distribution surfaces, thickness isopach maps, and cross-sections. The subsidence analysis from wells reaching the pre-Neogene basement results in subsidence depth and rate maps of basement and tectonic subsidence of the study area. The Vienna Basin has a complex history from a piggy-back basin phase (Early Miocene) to a pull-apart basin phase (Middle -Late Miocene). The 2D maps/3D surfaces generated in this study provide detailed insights into the polyphase basin evolution of the Vienna Basin, which is closely related to changes in the regional stress field and the paleoenvironmental setting. In the piggy-back basin phase, sedimentation and subsidence are slow, display E-W to NE-SW-trending troughs parallel to the strike of the orogen, and restricted to small depressions on top of the Alpine thrust. In the late Early Miocene, the Vienna Basin changes to a pull-apart basin system characterized by a wider sedimentation area and rapid subsidence along sinistral strike-slip faults and related normal faults. The depressions of the Early Miocene are filled with sediments supplied through deltaic systems entering from the south. After slow sedimentation and subsidence during the early Middle Miocene, the development of the Vienna Basin is controlled and accelerated by NE-SW trending synsedimentary normal faults, especially the Steinberg fault, until the Late Miocene. The Vienna Basin from the late Middle to Late Miocene is characterized by E-W extensional rift-type and decelerating subsidence, which corresponds to the E-W trending extension of the western parts of the neighboring Pannonian Basin system. During this time, enormous amounts of sediment are supplied mainly from the west by a broad paleo-Danube delta complex along the western flank of the Vienna Basin.

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Far‐field effects of Late Miocene subduction in the Eastern Carpathians: E‐W compression and inversion of structures in the Alpine‐Carpathian‐Pannonian region

Cited by 113 publications

References 48 publications

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

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

The Exhumation history of the European Alps inferred from linear inversion of thermochronometric data

3D visualization of the sedimentary fill and subsidence evolution in the northern and central Vienna Basin (Miocene)

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