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K-Ar dating of bentonite diagenesis in accretionary-wedge turbidites : case study from Western Outer Carpathians

Świerczewska A., Paul Z., Banaś M., Tokarski A. K.

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

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2015

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Vol. 85, No. 1

177--185

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Sixteen bentonite layers of Eocene–Oligocene age were sampled at thirteen sites in accretionary-wedge turbidite sequences, in the three innermost nappes of the Western Outer Carpathians. K-Ar dating was carried out for five of these layers to obtain the maximum burial ages. All of the ages obtained are older than the stratigraphic ages of the host strata. This relationship is due to significant contamination of the bentonites with non-authigenic minerals. This contamination resulted from rapid sedimentation during synsedimentary folding, which is a common feature in accretionary wedges. It follows that the K-Ar dating of bentonite layers in the turbidite sequences of accretionary wedges should be largely restricted to the very distal facies of turbidites or to pelitic intercalations within the turbidites.

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Pierwsze stanowisko holoceńskich uskoków w polskich Karpatach zewnętrznych

Zuchiewicz W., Tokarski A. K., Świerczewska A., Zasadni J., Siemińska A.

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2011

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Vol. 59, nr 8

566-575

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The paper presents the first example of Holocene faults in the OuterWestern Carpathians in Poland. Small-scale normal faults at Koninki, Gorce Mts., cut both Palaeocene strata of the Ropianka Formation of the Magura Nappe and overlying coarse-clastic bedload facies of Holocene alluvium that builds a 5-5.5-high terrace step of a small valley. These NE-trending faults are accompanied by reorientation of clast a-b planes subparallel to fault planes and by clast fracturing. Such deformations must have been induced by relatively strong earthquakes, unknown from historical record of the Outer Carpathian seismicity. Fault attitude points to NW-oriented axis of the minimum principal stress, which is compatible with parameters of the present-day stress field in the Outer Western Carpathians of Poland.

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Neotectonic activity of the Skawa River Fault Zone (Quter Carpathians, Poland)

Zuchiewicz W., Tokarski A. K., Świerczewska A., Cuong N. Q.

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

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2009

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Vol. 79, No 1

67-93

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The Skawa River catchment basin in the Outer Western Carpathians of Poland is situated upon morphostructures showing differentiated mobility in the Quaternary. Long profile of river channel reveals the lowest values of concavity index among the Polish Outer Carpathian rivers, pointing to low degree of river profile maturity, particularly in its middle reach coinciding with a zone of abnormally high river bed gradients. The Skawa River valley utilizes in its middle and northern reaches the Skawa River Fault Zone (SRFZ) composed of differently oriented oblique-slip faults, visible on DEM images as well-marked, rectilinear topolinea-ments. The NNW–SSE to N-S faults in the Silesian Nappe were probably reactivated in Late Pleistocene times as normal faults downthrowing their eastern sides, as shown by abnormally high position of the Weichselian Early Glacial straths on the western valley side. Such an episode of neotectonic activity (late Early Glacial times of the Last Glacial stage) has not been recognized so far in the other river valleys of the Polish segments of the Western Outer Carpathians. We conclude that some of the NNW-SSE to N–S trending faults were reactivated as strike-slip faults. This would conform to the present day stress arrangement within the Polish segment of Carpathians. Moreover, deformations of the Pleistocene straths between Osielec in the south and Wadowice-Zator areas in the north appear to indicate both pre-Weichselian and Weichselian reactivation of the Silesian and - to a lesser extent - Magura frontal thrusts. These movements continued also in the Holocene, although to a smaller extent, most probably due to moderately strong and/or strong earthquakes of magnitudes exceeding 5.5-5.7, resulting in clast fracturing within Holocene alluvium, particularly strong on the Silesian frontal thrust, and less intensive on the Carpathian marginal and Magura frontal thrusts, as well as on some faults that belong to the SRFZ. We are convinced that the record of seismically-induced clast fracturing on one of major fault zones in the Outer Carpathians should lead to revision of the hitherto-existing seismic risk assessment of this region, and particularly of the city of Kraków and other urbanized areas, as well as the planned artificial water reservoir at Świnna Poręba.

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Fractured clasts in neotectonic reconstructions: an example from the Nowy Sącz basin, western outer Carpathians, Poland

Tokarski A.K., Świerczewska A., Zuchiewicz W.

Studia Quaternaria

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2007

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Vol. 24

47-52

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This paper presents the results of a detailed analysis of fractured clasts hosted within Miocene and Pleistocene paraconglomerates that are exposed close to a map-scale overthrust. Both these paraconglomerates bear numerous fractured clasts (22-50%). The architecture of fractures (joints and minor faults) is well-organized and independent of both clast orientation and the degree of clast roundness. The fractures were formed in situ, most probably due to neotectonic activity of the map-scale overthrust. The number of fractured clasts is positively correlated with the clast size, and negatively correlated with the grain-size of clasts of detrital rocks. The number of fractured clasts increases in clasts of detrital rocks, compared to those of quartzites and magmatic rocks.

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Neofractures versus inherited fractures in structural analysis : A case study from Quaternary fluvial gravels (Outer Carpathians, Poland)

Tokarski A. K., Świerczewska A.

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

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2005

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Vol. 75, No. 1

95--104.

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This paper presents the results of a detailed analysis of flysch-derived clasts within Quaternary fluvial gravels exposed close to a map-scale overthrust. These clasts are commonly fractured. For a given population of clasts, the number of fractured clasts is positively correlated with the clast size and negatively correlated with the grain size of clast-forming rocks. The fractures comprise both those inherited from earlier joints cutting source strata, and those formed in situ within the gravels (neofractures). These two groups of fractures show different diagnostic features. The inherited fractures are orientated at random in relation to geographic coordinates, where as the neofractures show a well-organized architecture. The inherited fractures are mostly inclined 80–90° to the a-b planes of the host clasts, whereas the neofractures are usually inclined at 0–80° to these planes. The occurrence of neofractured clasts within the analysed gravels results from tectonic activity post-dating gravel deposition.

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W czwartorzędowych żwirach rzecznych odsłoniętych w pobliżu regionalnego nasunięcia w polskich Karpatach Zachodnich powszechnie występują spękane klasty skał fliszowych. W analizowanym materiale klasty skał drobnoziarnistych są częściej spękane, niż klasty skał gruboziarnistych. Obserwuje się też dodatnią korelację pomiędzy liczbą spękanych klastów a ich wielkością. Wśród spękań występują spękania odziedziczone po spękaniach ciosowych tnących skały macierzyste oraz neospękania, które powstały in situ w żwirach. Te dwie grupy spękań cechuje różna orientacja w stosunku do współrzędnych geograficznych oraz do powierzchni a-b klastów, tj. płaszczyzny zawierającej oś o maksymalnym (a) i pośrednim (b) wymiarze. Spękania odziedziczone są zorientowane chaotycznie w stosunku do współrzędnych geograficznych, podczas gdy orientacja neospękań jest uporządkowana. Spękania odziedziczone są zorientowane niemal pionowo (80-90°) względem powierzchni a-b klastów macierzystych, natomiast neospękania są zorientowane pod katami 0-80° do tych powierzchni. Pochodzenie neospękań jest wynikiem aktywności tektonicznej, która miała miejsce po osadzeniu analizowanych żwirów.

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Evolution of small-scale deformation in relation to increasing calcite cementation in the sandstones of the Magura Nappe, Outer Carpathians (Poland)

Świerczewska A., Tokarski A. K.

Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego

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2001

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nr 396

152-153

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Joints and mineral veins during structural evolution: case study from the Outer Carpathians (Poland)

Świerczewska A., Tokarski A.K., Hurai V.

Geological Quarterly

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2000

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Vol. 44, Nr 3

333-339

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This paper focuses on mineral veins hosted in small-scale fractures within the Tertiary sandstones of the Magura nappe (Outer Carpathians). Joints, faults and tension gashes record three successive stages of the nappe structural evolution: (1) synsedimentary folding and thrusting, (2) regional rotation and (3) late-orogenic collapse. The flow of mineral-bearing fluids was channelized by small-scale fractures resulting in calcite and quartz-calcite veins. Folding: columnar calcite formed the most common filling of early joints and the joints-related tension gashes and strike-slip faults. The mineralisation was restricted to sandstones containing primary carbonates. Rotation: precipitation of columnar and fibrous calcite was largely restricted to joints reactivated as strike-slip faults. Collapse: the collapse-related mineralisation is the most abundant. Wide-spread fluid flow was channelized by normal faults resulting in fibrous calcite and quartz-calcite along these faults whereas several blocky and drusy calcite generation and single high temperature quartz-calcite assemblage precipitated in numerous adjoining joints.

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A pilot paleomagnetic study of the Polish segment of the Carpathian Foredeep

Marton E., Rauch M., Tokarski A. K.

Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego

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1999

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nr 387

140--141