Polykinematic foreland basins initiated during orthogonal convergence and terminated by orogen-oblique strike-slip faulting: An example from the northeastern Variscan belt

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F19%3A00507814" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/19:00507814 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/19:10404613 RIV/00023272:_____/19:10134404 RIV/00025798:_____/19:00000283

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195119302161?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195119302161?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.05.023" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.tecto.2019.05.023</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Polykinematic foreland basins initiated during orthogonal convergence and terminated by orogen-oblique strike-slip faulting: An example from the northeastern Variscan belt

Original language description

An extensive early Carboniferous foreland basin (the Moravosilesian Culm Basin, MSCB) delineates the northeastern margin of the Bohemian Massif (Variscan orogenic belt). The basin overlays a complex suture between the outer Brunovistulia microplate, forming a promontory previously accreted to Laurussia, and inner Gondwana-derived units that form the remainder of the Bohemian Massif. Our structural, paleomagnetic and magnetic anisotropy data from the eastern portion of the MSCB indicate that its depositional architecture, internal fabric, and deformation by folding and faulting record a major switch from orthogonal convergence to orogen-oblique strike-slip shearing. First, the Brunovistulia microcontinent was subducted frontally towards W during ~346–335 Ma, followed by a shift of the subduction vector towards ~SSW at around 335–330 Ma. From ~330 Ma onwards, the underthrusting had ceased and the ~WNW–ESE dextral Elbe shear zone, related to the westward movement of Gondwana with respect to Laurussia, controlled deformation of this region. Displacement of the northerly Eastern Sudetes ‘block’ towards ~ESE produced regional ~WNW–ESE pure-shear shortening against the Brunovistulia indentor and resulted in an overall doubly-vergent structure of the MSCB. Simultaneously, the southerly Moldanubian unit was translated towards ~WNW, away from the Brunovistulian microplate, and likely contributed to an extensional regime related to orogenic collapse progressing outward from the internal domains of the Bohemian Massif. On a larger scale, we suggest that the MSCB is an illustrative example of a polykinematic foreland basin, where deposition, syn- to post-sedimentary deformation, and thus geodynamic processes changed significantly during basin evolution, starting off with microplate impingement into a continental margin reentrant and terminated by strike-slip shearing. Our data also do not support previous models for the tectonic development of the northeastern termination of the Variscan Belt, which suggested either a large-magnitude, vertical-axis oroclinal rotation of the foreland or its translation along an orogen-perpendicular strike-slip fault.

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

<a href="/en/project/GA16-11500S" target="_blank" >GA16-11500S: Sedimentary record and mechanics of collapse of orogenic belts</a><br>

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

Tectonophysics

ISSN

0040-1951

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

766

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5 September

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

379-397

UT code for WoS article

000488141100024

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85068596520