Revealing the late Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene alluvial archive in the confluence of the Western Carpathian and Eastern Alpine rivers: 26Al/10Be burial dating from the Danube Basin (Slovakia)

Geotechnical Analysis of Transforming a Water Management Structure to a Transportation Structure

“…The geological environment in the study area is composed of fluvial deposits of quaternary age reaching a thickness circa. 250 m [2]. This was successively accumulated in the Gabčíkovo-Győr depression of the Danube Basin as a result of a neotectonic basin inversion [3].…”

“…The strata consist mostly of gravelly and sandy-gravelly channel-fill facies of the Danube and Western Carpathian rivers and were accumulated in braiding depositional settings. The deposition in high sediment supply and low accommodation rate conditions caused a low content of sandy, silty and clayey layers [2]. An exception is given by the uppermost few meters of the basin fill, which were deposited during the Holocene as floodplain, mostly silty and clayey facies of the meandering Danube [4].…”

Mud redeposition during river incision as a factor affecting authigenic 10Be/9Be dating: Early Pleistocene large mammal fossil‐bearing site Nová Vieska, eastern Danube Basin

“…The floodplain‐dominated sedimentation of the Volkovce Formation ceased at ~6 Ma, when the basin inversion started (Tari, 1994; Vakarcs et al , 1994; Horváth, 1995; Horváth et al , 2006; Tari et al , 2020; Šujan et al , 2021). The basin inversion caused a significant decrease in accommodation rates, uplift and partial denudation of the basin margins and subsidence of the central depression of the basin (Šujan et al , 2018b) (Fig. 2).…”

“…The hypothesis of the redeposition of older sediment as a factor affecting the authigenic 10 Be/ 9 Be dating requires further verification. A validation of the hypothesis by petrographic, mineralogical or geochemical proxies remains problematic, as the floodplain muddy facies of the redeposited Volkovce and Kolárovo formations, as well as the Quaternary sediments, were deposited by comparable processes and with a similar provenance (Šujan et al , 2018b; Šujan et al , 2020). Whether different climatic conditions would allow the tracing of the effect described here in the muddy layers remains an open question.…”

Physically based morphostructural land surface segmentation: Case of the Alps and Western Carpathians

“…Systematic investigation of relationships between tectonic uplift, denudation rate, and topography is missing here. The high spatio‐temporal variability of the published denudation, accommodation, and uplift rates across the Western Carpathians and the adjacent Pannonian Basin (e.g., Bella et al., 2019; Jacko et al., 2021; Šujan et al., 2017, 2018, 2021; Zuchiewicz, 2009) argues against a neotectonic (Pliocene–Quaternary) tendency to steady state. Due to a dominant extensional regime, the highest differential vertical neotectonic movements are supposed on the boundary with the Pannonian basin (Šujan et al., 2021) and on the boundaries of small intramountain basins (e.g., Kováč et al., 2011).…”