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Continuous contractional deformation followed by extension in the Nowy Sącz Basin, Polish Outer Carpathians: constraints from fault-slip analysis
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2025) Fodor, László; Świerczewska, Anna; Strzelecki, Piotr Jan
Fault-slip analysis was carried out in the Nowy Sącz Basin and the surroundings of the Polish Outer Carpathians based on field observations, published maps, and publications. A reconstruction of the stress field and the contractional directions from the folds suggests that the area was marked by four different deformation phases, most of them involving several stress states. The tilt test supports the separation of pre-, syn-, and post-folding deformation episodes within the phases which occurred during the folding of the Palaeogene to Early Miocene flysch units and also during the folding of the late Middle Miocene basin fill. After an early extensional phase at the onset of the deformation history, the area was marked by contractional deformation from ~34 Ma to ~8 Ma. During this period the compressional direction did not change markedly but a slight clockwise change of the maximal stress axis may have occurred in the Early Miocene due to vertical-axis block rotation. In this persistent deformation field, the basin could have had a contractional origin in front of an out-of-sequence thrust. The latest Miocene(?) to Quaternary deformation was probably related to the extensional collapse of the Carpathian accretionary wedge.
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The Tatras - nappes and landscapes
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2008) Felisiak, Ireneusz
Geological structure of the Tatra Mts is a result of long-lasting processes. The key nappes have already been completed some 65 Ma ago. However as a mountain range the Tatras has emerged at the surface only 5 Ma ago, when a piece of continental crust separated from African continent at the beginning of Mesozoic era ultimately collided with Europe. Thus, the crystalline core of the Tatras, which builts also the highest crest is a fragment of Africa. This monumental mountains are, however, not an effect of the overthrusting but they resulted from young, vertical tectonic movements, which are still active and which sometimes shake the whole Podhale region. The following paper explains how the Tatras were formed. The figures enclosed illustrate the succeeding formation stages of the mountain range and the photographs allow the Reader to compare drawings with the field. Welcome to the Tatras.