Active tectonics in the Cheb Basin: youngest documented Holocene surface faulting in Central Europe?

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/67985891:_____/19:00517427

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=5kip8gqhFW" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=5kip8gqhFW</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.11.007" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.11.007</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Active tectonics in the Cheb Basin: youngest documented Holocene surface faulting in Central Europe?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The NNW-SSE trending Marianske Lazne Fault (MLF) zone is situated in the western part of the Bohemian Massif (Czech Republic, central Europe) and controls the eastern limit of Cenozoic Cheb Basin. The Cheb Basin is wellknown for present-day earthquake swarms, with maximum magnitude not exceeding Mw 4.0, and abundant occurrences of mantle-derived carbon-dioxide emanations. The MLF borders the Cheb Basin towards the KruKne hory Mts. controlling their morphologically pronounced mountain front. However, no large earthquakes required for forming the tectonic morphology (Mw &gt; 6) have been recorded historically. To examine if potential prehistoric earthquakes contributed to mountain front formation along the MLF and to Late Quaternary seismic hazard in the region, we excavated a trench at the Kopanina site where the fault was identified by geomorphological and geophysical surveys. The trench revealed repeated movements along several fault strands within the MLF of various ages, which displaced basin sediments deposited since the Oligocene. The youngest faults cut and deformed Holocene layers at least twice, with a total cumulative vertical displacement on the main fault 0.5 m. The deformations that we documented here suggest transpression within the MLF during Holocene. Based on empirical relationships between magnitude and displacement/rupture length, the MLF has produced earthquakes with a minimum magnitude of Mw = 6.5. The youngest event is dated approximately to the period 792-1020 CE. To match the youngest event with a historical earthquake, several candidates could be considered and further investigated, but the most probable one seems to be the earthquake reported in catalogs for 998 CE. Hence our study revealed the youngest proven surface faulting in central Europe and the largest Holocene event reported so far for the Bohemian Massif, which is of great importance for seismic hazard re-assessment for the broader, slowly moving region. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Active tectonics in the Cheb Basin: youngest documented Holocene surface faulting in Central Europe?

Popis výsledku anglicky

The NNW-SSE trending Marianske Lazne Fault (MLF) zone is situated in the western part of the Bohemian Massif (Czech Republic, central Europe) and controls the eastern limit of Cenozoic Cheb Basin. The Cheb Basin is wellknown for present-day earthquake swarms, with maximum magnitude not exceeding Mw 4.0, and abundant occurrences of mantle-derived carbon-dioxide emanations. The MLF borders the Cheb Basin towards the KruKne hory Mts. controlling their morphologically pronounced mountain front. However, no large earthquakes required for forming the tectonic morphology (Mw &gt; 6) have been recorded historically. To examine if potential prehistoric earthquakes contributed to mountain front formation along the MLF and to Late Quaternary seismic hazard in the region, we excavated a trench at the Kopanina site where the fault was identified by geomorphological and geophysical surveys. The trench revealed repeated movements along several fault strands within the MLF of various ages, which displaced basin sediments deposited since the Oligocene. The youngest faults cut and deformed Holocene layers at least twice, with a total cumulative vertical displacement on the main fault 0.5 m. The deformations that we documented here suggest transpression within the MLF during Holocene. Based on empirical relationships between magnitude and displacement/rupture length, the MLF has produced earthquakes with a minimum magnitude of Mw = 6.5. The youngest event is dated approximately to the period 792-1020 CE. To match the youngest event with a historical earthquake, several candidates could be considered and further investigated, but the most probable one seems to be the earthquake reported in catalogs for 998 CE. Hence our study revealed the youngest proven surface faulting in central Europe and the largest Holocene event reported so far for the Bohemian Massif, which is of great importance for seismic hazard re-assessment for the broader, slowly moving region. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10505 - Geology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Geomorphology

ISSN

0169-555X

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

327

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

november

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

472-488

Kód UT WoS článku

000456491600033

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85057842284