Mapping the progressive geologic history at the junction of the Alpine mountain belt and the western Mediterranean ocean

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00025798%3A_____%2F19%3A00000350" target="_blank" >RIV/00025798:_____/19:00000350 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335137746_Mapping_the_progressive_geologic_history_at_the_junction_of_the_Alpine_Mountain_Belt_and_the_Western_Mediterranean_Ocean" target="_blank" >https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335137746_Mapping_the_progressive_geologic_history_at_the_junction_of_the_Alpine_Mountain_Belt_and_the_Western_Mediterranean_Ocean</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4454/ofioliti.v44i2.467" target="_blank" >10.4454/ofioliti.v44i2.467</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mapping the progressive geologic history at the junction of the Alpine mountain belt and the western Mediterranean ocean

Original language description

This contribution illustrates a new type of map, the “geological event map” (1:250,000 scale), which highlights the progressive steps of the geologic history recorded in the polycyclic orogenic belt of the European Alps, at their southwestern termination facing the western Mediterranean Sea. The formula of historical progression simplifies comprehension of significant phenomenal visions and reorients public curiosity towards geologic processes. This part of the Alpine belt records a geologic history starting with the Variscan convergence during Devonian, throughout the opening of the Tethys Ocean, Alpine convergence, followed by Apennine subduction driving the opening of the Ligurian-Provençal Ocean. Finally, from late Miocene to Present a progressive tectonic inversion characterizes the Ligurian-Provençal continental margin. This geologic history, over a time period of 400 million years, which includes three successive Wilson Cycles, is displayed in 8 plates composed of maps and illustrations. Each map explains the effects of successive tectonic events by adding geologic changes that modify the petrogenetic and structural configurations. The last plate shows the finite state of the geologic history at present-time. The map legend is based on ten major geodynamic events of which rock associations, and their genetic environment, are described in simple divulgation terms, to stimulate interest of neophytes. Illustration of the evolution of rocks and structures side of each map aims at conveying to non specialists in tectonics and petrology the impact of mechanisms associated with the Earth’s deep engine upon surface changes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ofioliti

ISSN

0391-2612

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

44

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

97-110

UT code for WoS article

000477707400003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85072058358