The Moldanubian Units-A Broad Insight into Deeper Parts of the Variscan Orogen
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00025798%3A_____%2F25%3A10169865" target="_blank" >RIV/00025798:_____/25:10169865 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82911-6_17" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82911-6_17</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82911-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-82911-6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Moldanubian Units-A Broad Insight into Deeper Parts of the Variscan Orogen
Original language description
The Moldanubian Units Sensu Stricto (MUSS) is an assemblage of high-grade metamorphic rocks corresponding to the deeper Variscan "orogenic root domain". The MUSS portrays the results of multiple geodynamic episodes in the Variscan Orogen, namely: (a) Building of the orogenic root domain (~ 390-346 Ma) in response to the onset of ~ SE(ESE)-directed continental subduction and crustal thickening, which proceeded under HT-HP metamorphic conditions. This event gave rise to compressional (transpressional) ~ NNE-SSW striking foliation fabrics (S1), synchronous with the emplacement of a large number of calc-alkaline "arc-related" granitoids, particularly along the boundary between the Teplá-Barrandian Zone and the MUSS. (b) Collapse of the orogenic root and rapid crustal exhumation of deep-seated rocks at ~ 346-335 Ma. These processes were associated with the ascent of U(HP) rocks, a regional retrograde HT-MP(LP) isothermal overprint, and extensive decompression melting. This resulted in the overall subvertical shortening in the mid-crustal level giving rise to subhorizontal exhumation-related fabrics (S2) and the emplacement of (ultra)potassic, magnesium rich granitoids (durbachites). Synchronous oblique ~ SW(SSW) directed underthrusting of the Brunia microcontinent beneath the eastern flank of the MUSS was active at ~ 346-335 Ma. (c) The late-orogenic convergence characterized by high-heat flow and voluminous magmatism (~335 to 325 Ma) ensued with ~ N-S shortening driven by the convergence of the crustal segment derived from the Gondwana continent. The convergence was accompanied by significant re-heating, HT metamorphic overprint, and additional melting. Associated regional ~ W(NW)-E(SE) striking foliation (S3) and the extensive, syn- to post-tectonic, crustally derived granites intruded as the Moldanubian Batholith. These processes were accompanied by the "gravity-driven" exhumation of ~ NNE-SSW trending migmatite-granite Pelhřimov Core Complex (PC) that ensued in the context of the fading oblique underthrusting of the Brunia microcontinent. (d) Subsequently, the post-collisional extension and cooling (~ 325-300 Ma) continued accompanied by the emplacement of the post-collisional peraluminous to calc-alkaline granitoids (up to ~ 300 Ma) and localized right-lateral shearing (transtension) along ~ NW(WNW)-SE(ESE) and ~ NE(NNE)-SW(SSW) striking shear zones.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10505 - Geology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Variscan Orogen of Central Europe
ISBN
978-3-031-82910-9
Number of pages of the result
24
Pages from-to
527-550
Number of pages of the book
1033
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Switzerland
UT code for WoS chapter
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