The Nysa-Morava Zone: an active tectonic domain with Late
Cenozoic sedimentary grabens in the Western Carpathians’
foreland (NE Bohemian Massif)

J 2015

The Nysa-Morava Zone: an active tectonic domain with Late Cenozoic sedimentary grabens in the Western Carpathians’ foreland (NE Bohemian Massif)

ŠPAČEK, Petr, Ondřej BÁBEK, Petra ŠTĚPANČÍKOVÁ, Jan ŠVANCARA, Jana PAZDÍRKOVÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

The Nysa-Morava Zone: an active tectonic domain with Late Cenozoic sedimentary grabens in the Western Carpathians’ foreland (NE Bohemian Massif)

Authors

ŠPAČEK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Ondřej BÁBEK (203 Czech Republic), Petra ŠTĚPANČÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Jan ŠVANCARA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jana PAZDÍRKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jan SEDLÁČEK (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

International Journal of Earth Sciences, Springer, 2015, 1437-3254

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.133

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/15:00080786

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1121-7

UT WoS

000354949600003

Keywords in English

Bohemian Massif; Upper Morava Basin; Tectonic evolution; Seismicity;Sedimentary grabens;Late Cenozoic

Abstract

V originále

We give an interpretive review of the geological evolution of the Nysa-Morava Zone (NMZ)—a Late Cenozoic tectonically active region of the NE Bohemian Massif located at its contact with the Western Carpathians’ orogenic front. This crustal domain, delimited by generally NW–SE-striking fault system, is characterised by Oligo-Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene volcanic activity, regionally anomalous, weak historical and present-day seismicity and increased CO2 flux. The NMZ hosts several elongated, mostly NW–SE-trending, graben-like sedimentary basins (Upper Morava Basin System), which are filled by more than 300-m-thick succession of clastic fluvial/lacustrine sediments of Pliocene–Quaternary age. Based on geometric relations, basin architecture, coincidence of seismicity with CO2 escape and sparse focal mechanism data, a model is proposed, which explains this active domain as a transfer zone developed between major WNW–ESE and NW–SE faults in a right-lateral transpressional setting. It is suggested that slow horizontal slip at these faults resulted in local permutations of the largest and medium stress directions and formation of transtensional crustal domains in the NMZ. Moreover, relation of the NMZ to the Alpine–Carpathian system and sedimentary grabens in its foreland is discussed. The absence of Paleogene and Lower Miocene deposits suggests that subsidence in the NMZ was commenced later than in the European Cenozoic Rift System (ECRIS), which is in agreement with later thrusting in Western Carpathians at ~17 Ma. The quantitative contrasts to the ECRIS in terms of faulting and subsidence rates are explained by the absence of lithospheric/crustal thinning in the NMZ.

Links

EE2.3.20.0052, research and development project

Name: Výzkumný tým pro ukládání radioaktivních odpadů a jadernou bezpečnost

GAP210/12/0573, research and development project

Name: Pozdně kvartérní seismogenní zlomová aktivita a související vývoj sedimentačních pánví ve východní části Českého masívu

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

LM2010008, research and development project

Name: CzechGeo/EPOS ? Distribuovaný systém observatorních a terénních měření geofyzikálních polí v České republice

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR

Citovat

ŠPAČEK, Petr, Ondřej BÁBEK, Petra ŠTĚPANČÍKOVÁ, Jan ŠVANCARA, Jana PAZDÍRKOVÁ and Jan SEDLÁČEK. The Nysa-Morava Zone: an active tectonic domain with Late Cenozoic sedimentary grabens in the Western Carpathians’ foreland (NE Bohemian Massif). International Journal of Earth Sciences. Springer, 2015, vol. 104, No 4, p. 963-990. ISSN 1437-3254. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1121-7.

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ŠPAČEK, Petr, Ondřej BÁBEK, Petra ŠTĚPANČÍKOVÁ, Jan ŠVANCARA, Jana PAZDÍRKOVÁ and Jan SEDLÁČEK. The Nysa-Morava Zone: an active tectonic domain with Late Cenozoic sedimentary grabens in the Western Carpathians’ foreland (NE Bohemian Massif). \textit{International Journal of Earth Sciences}. Springer, 2015, vol.~104, No~4, p.~963-990. ISSN~1437-3254. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1121-7.

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