Late Quaternary fault activity in the Western Carpathians: evidence from the Vikartovce Fault (Slovakia)

Vojtko, Rastislav; Marko, František; Preusser, Frank; Madarás, Ján; Kováčová, Marianna

doi:10.2478/v10096-011-0040-9

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“…Fault kinematics varied from normal to transtensional strike-slip (mostly sinistral oblique-slip) although it can mostly be deduced from outcrop-scale fault-slip data (e.g., Fodor 1991;Vojtko et al 2011;Sipos-Benkő et al 2014;Klučiar et al 2016). Stress calculations would suggest E -W to SE -NW tension although it is not clear if the different values indicate spatial or temporal variations (see Marko et al 1995;Fodor et al 1999;Hók et al 1999;Marko 2012;Sipos-Benkő et al 2014, Kovács et al 2015.…”

Section: Structural Backgroundmentioning

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Late Miocene sedimentary record of the Danube/Kisalföld Basin: interregional correlation of depositional systems, stratigraphy and structural evolution

Sztanó¹,

Kováč²,

Magyar³

et al. 2016

Geologica Carpathica

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Abstract:The Danube / Kisalföld Basin is the north-western sub-basin of the Pannonian Basin System. The lithostratigraphic subdivision of the several-km-thick Upper Miocene to Pliocene sedimentary succession related to Lake Pannon has been developed independently in Slovakia and Hungary. A study of the sedimentary formations across the entire basin led us to claim that these formations are identical or similar between the two basin parts to such an extent that their correlation is indeed a matter of nomenclature only. Nemčiňany corresponds to the Kálla Formation, representing locally derived coarse clastics along the basin margins (11-9.5 Ma). The deep lacustrine sediments are collectively designated the Ivanka Formation in Slovakia, while in Hungary they are subdivided into Szák (fine-grained transgressive deposits above basement highs, 10.5 -8.9 Ma), Endrőd (deep lacustrine marls, 11.6 -10 Ma), Szolnok (turbidites, 10.5 -9.2 Ma) and Algyő Formations (fine-grained slope deposits, 10 -9 Ma). The Beladice Formation represents shallow lacustrine deltaic deposits, fully corresponding to Újfalu (10.5 -8.7 Ma). The overlying fluvial deposits are the Volkovce and Zagyva Formations (10 -6 Ma). The synoptic description and characterization of these sediments offer a basin-wide insight into the development of the basin during the Late Miocene. The turbidite systems, the slope, the overlying deltaic and fluvial systems are all genetically related and are coeval at any time slice after the regression of Lake Pannon initiated about 10 Ma ago. All these formations get younger towards the S, SE as the progradation of the shelf-slope went on. The basin got filled up to lake level by 8.7 Ma, since then fluvial deposition dominated.

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Late Miocene sedimentary record of the Danube/Kisalföld Basin: interregional correlation of depositional systems, stratigraphy and structural evolution

Sztanó¹,

Kováč²,

Magyar³

et al. 2016

Geologica Carpathica

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“…This premise indicates that an accelerated exhumation rate of the Tatra massif must have occurred ~6.5-1.0 Ma. Beside this, slip rate analysis of the Vikartovce fault which is parallel to the sub-Tatra fault close to the Tatra Mts provided dip-slip movement along the fault ~1 mm/a during the Late Pleistocene (Vojtko et al 2011).…”

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Cretaceous—Quaternary tectonic evolution of the Tatra Mts (Western Carpathians): constraints from structural, sedimentary, geomorphological, and fission track data

Králiková¹,

Vojtko²,

Sliva³

et al. 2014

Geologica Carpathica

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Abstract:The Tatra Mts area, located in the northernmost part of Central Western Carpathians on the border between Slovakia and Poland, underwent a complex Alpine tectonic evolution. This study integrates structural, sedimentary, and geomorphological data combined with fission track data from the Variscan granite rocks to discuss the Cretaceous to Quaternary tectonic and landscape evolution of the Tatra Mts. The presented data can be correlated with five principal tectonic stages (TS), including neotectonics. TS-1 (~95-80 Ma) is related to mid-Cretaceous nappe stacking when the Tatric Unit was overlain by Mesozoic sequences of the Fatric and Hronic Nappes. After nappe stacking the Tatric crystalline basement was exhumed (and cooled) in response to the Late Cretaceous/Paleogene orogenic collapse followed by orogen-parallel extension. This is supported by 70 to 60 Ma old zircon fission track ages. Extensional tectonics were replaced by transpression to transtension during the Late Paleocene to Eocene (TS-2; ~80-45 Ma). TS-3 (~45-20 Ma) is documented by thick Oligocene-lowermost Miocene sediments of the Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin which kept the underlying Tatric crystalline basement at elevated temperatures (ca. >120 °C and <200 °C). The TS-4 (~20-7 Ma) is linked to slow Miocene exhumation rate of the Tatric crystalline basement, as it is indicated by apatite fission track data of 9-12 Ma. The final shaping of the Tatra Mts has been linked to accelerated tectonic activity since the Pliocene (TS-5; ~7-0 Ma).

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“…Late Quaternary activity of located south of Tatra Mts. Vikarovce fault was confirmed by luminescence dating (Vojtko et al 2011). The studies of historical earthquakes suggest moderate seismic activity of Western Carpathians including the Tatra Mts.…”

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confidence: 79%

Evaluation of tectonic activity using morphometric indices: case study of the Tatra Mts. (Western Carpathians, Poland)

Buczek

Górnik

2020

Environ Earth Sci

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The Tatra Mountains (Tatra Mts.) are the highest and most glacially reshaped mountain massif in the Carpathians. Previous studies suggested the tectonic uplift of this massif along the large sub-Tatric fault during Quaternary. The main goal of this paper is to characterise the tectonic activity in the Tatra Mts. using 6 geomorphic indices for 78 drainage basins: the streamgradient index (SL), asymmetry factor (Af), basin shape ratio (Bs), hypsometric integral (Hi), valley floor width-valley height ratio (Vf), as well as mountain-front sinuosity (Smf). These parameters were combined in order to obtain the relative tectonic activity index (Iat) using GIS. The average of the six computed geomorphic indices was used to evaluate the distribution of relative tectonic activity in the study area. According to Iat values, four classes of different tectonic activity can be distinguished in the Tatra Mts.: class 1 of very high tectonic activity (0.7% of Tatra Mts.); class 2 of high activity (24.3%); class 3 of moderate activity (68.4%); and class 4 of low activity (6.6%). Our study confirmed previous suggestions about unequal uplift of different parts of the massif. Iat values show high tectonic activity along the Sub-Tatric fault, as well as in the northern part of the Belianskie Tatra. Distribution of Vf and Hi values correlate with extend of glaciers during Last Glacial Maximum. It seems that values of some geomorphic indices, such as Vf and HI, are strongly associated with glacial reshaping of the Tatra Mts. during the Pleistocene.

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Late Quaternary fault activity in the Western Carpathians: evidence from the Vikartovce Fault (Slovakia)

Cited by 23 publications

References 25 publications

Late Miocene sedimentary record of the Danube/Kisalföld Basin: interregional correlation of depositional systems, stratigraphy and structural evolution

Late Miocene sedimentary record of the Danube/Kisalföld Basin: interregional correlation of depositional systems, stratigraphy and structural evolution

Cretaceous—Quaternary tectonic evolution of the Tatra Mts (Western Carpathians): constraints from structural, sedimentary, geomorphological, and fission track data

Evaluation of tectonic activity using morphometric indices: case study of the Tatra Mts. (Western Carpathians, Poland)

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