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Miocene transpression effects at the boundary of Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin and Pieniny Klippen Belt - examples from Polish-Slovakian borderland

Ludwiniak M.

Geology, Geophysics and Environment

2018

Vol. 44, no. 1

91--100

A geological structural study has been conducted along the tectonic contact zone of the Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin (CCPB) and Pieniny Klippen Belt (PKB) in the eastern Podhale and western Spišska Magura areas. It concerned mostly the Central Carpathian Paleogene flysch strata and, to a lesser degree, the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the PKB. Tectonic deformation structures genetically related to the important tectonic boundary in question occur within a c. 1.5–2 km-wide strip of the Paleogene flysch rocks adjacent from the south to the PKB. Two parallel structural domains have been distinguished within this strip: the contact zone proper in the north and the peri-Pieniny monocline in the south. Most of the minor faults documented in the Paleogene flysch bear a record of dextral motion parallel to the contact zone. Some dextral-reverse oblique slip faults of NE-SW and W-E trends have also been recognized. Discrepancies in the orientation and sense of movement on strike-slip faults in the Paleogene flysch rocks and those in marlstones of the “klippen envelope” of the PKB were encountered. They probably reflect differences in the structural history of both the adjacent rock complexes, as the Upper Cretaceous deposits of the PKB must have experienced more deformation events and, in general, were affected by much more intense strain than those of the CCPB. Contractional structures, such as south-vergent reverse faults and recumbent folds which point to ca N-S tectonic shortening, have also been found in the Paleogene rocks. The entirety of the structural features found in the CCPB is characteristic of a transpressional regime. The regionally consistent coexistence of structures resulting from strike-slip movements and tectonic shortening, as well as features pointing directly to a transpressional regime, prove the transpressional dextral nature of the contact between the CCPB and PKB.

Tectonics of the Chęciny Anticline (Holy Cross Mts., Central Poland) in the light of new cartographic data and calcite vein analysis

Jurewicz E., Stępień U.

Geological Quarterly

2012

Vol. 56, No 1

95-106

The Variscan orogeny of NE–SW compression has folded the Paleozoic core of the Holy Cross Mountains (Central Poland). The Chęciny Anticline, formed during this tectonic event, is located in the southwestern part of the Kielce Unit. This paper presents structural data from two newly found outcrops of Cambrian rocks that modify the geometric reconstruction of the Chęciny Anticline, especially within its southern limb that is subdivided into two second-order structures: the Rzepka Syncline and the Wrzosy Anticline. The eastern part of the Chęciny Anticline has been reconstructed, pinpointing its fragmentation into a series of blocks (horsts and grabens) separated by faults semi-perpendicular to the anticline axis. New mapping data reveals deep, pre-Triassic erosion of folded Variscan basement, uncovering Cambrian rocks outcropping in the hinge of the Wrzosy Anticline. In the Chęciny Anticline, folding-related shortening has been accompanied by along-strike extension and the formation of syn-tectonic calcite veins, which filled fractures oriented perpendicular to the fold axis. The magnitude of extension has been estimated along a 215 m long main quarry wall of Rzepka Hill, approximately parallel to the Variscan structures and located within the southern limb of the Chęciny Anticline. The total thicknesses of veins filling extension fractures and spaces between clasts in tectonic breccia were summed and indicate 8.4% of strike-parallel extension (~120o) in the Chęciny area. This value was compared to ca. 30% of folding-induced shortening, related to NE–SW late Variscan compression. We hence obtain a strain ratio of 30:8.4 = 3.5. This high value of strain ratio indicates that longitudinal extension was a significant component contributing to the late Variscan deformation in the Kielce Unit.