Tectonic Aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian System (Geological Society Special Publication No. 298)

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by  S. Siegesmund

Tectonic Aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian System
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GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO.298
Tectonic Aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian
System
EDITED BY
S. SIEGESMUND
University of Go¨ttingen, Germany
B. FU¨GENSCHUH
University of Innsbruck, Austria
and
N. FROITZHEIM
University of Bonn,Germany
2008
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Foreword: Stefan M. Schmid
This Geological Society Special Publication is from the microscale towards the macroscale in
dedicated to Professor Stefan Schmid on the Earth sciences. Over the years, he has expanded
occasion of his65th birthday in recognition of his and intensified his collaboration with colleagues
merits in structural geology and tectonics. Stefan from other branches of the Earth sciences and
Schmid is without any doubt one of today’s integrated this information with his sound basis
pre-eminent geologists, both as a scientist and as a structural geologist. Key publications
teacher. include his work on the Insubric Line and his
Born in 1943 in Wohlen, Switzerland, he first outstanding geological/geophysical transects
worked as a school teacher before starting his through the Alps. In the last couple of years,
career as a geologist. In 1968, he finished his Stefan has extended his area of interest both in
diplomathesisandin1971hisPhDthesis,bothat the horizontal and vertical scale. Thanks to his
ETHZu¨richundertheguidanceofRudolfTru¨mpy. close cooperation with geophysicists, he became
After six years as a postdoctoral fellow, that fascinated by the recent outcomes of teleseismic
broughthimfirsttoImperialCollegeLondon(John tomography and their bearing on the Alps,
Ramsay and Ernie Rutter) and afterwards to the Carpathians and Dinarides. On the horizontal
Australian National University Canberra (with scale, he moved (south)eastwards and became
Mervyn Paterson), he then moved back to ETH increasingly drawn to the Carpathians and
Zu¨rich asa lecturer. In 1989,he wasappointed as Dinarides, first due to their challenging geology
full professor and head of Geologisch-Pala¨ontolo- and secondly because of the attractiveness of
gisches Institut at the University of Basel. eastern European countries.
During his scientific career, he has contributed Stefan’s work in the fields of emplacement of
substantially to two main fields of Earth sciences, granitic plutons, extensional tectonics and neotec-
namely the structure and rheology of deformed tonicsfoundabroadreadership,andhehaslenthis
rocks and the processes of mountain building, experience to social aspects of Earth sciences in
especially in Alpine-type orogens. the context of earthquake risk assessment and
Together with colleagues at the Australian Alpine tunnels (NEAT).
National University and the Center for Tectono- During all this time, Stefan Schmid has
physics (Texas A & M University), Stefan carried incorporated and promoted young scientists.
out numerous experiments related to the defor- Hardly anybody can escape his overwhelming
mation of calcite in the 1970s and 1980s and enthusiasm for good-natured debate, with students
exploited deformation mechanisms in other min- aswellasnon-specialistsprofitingimmenselyfrom
erals. Outstanding publications during this period his ability to extract the essentials from the
include the description of ‘superplasticity in geological chaos.
fine-grainedlimestone’andtheworkon‘complete He clearly has had a great impact on the Earth
fabric analysis of quartz c-axis patterns’. Along science community, both as an outstanding
with his experimental endeavours, Stefan has scientist and as a fascinating personality, and he
always kept contact with the ‘field’ and applied will, no doubt, do so for many years to come.
theexperimentaloutcomestofieldstudiesandvice
versa. Cited over 500 times, his publication on
‘shear sense criteria’ with Carol Simpson clearly
Happy 65th birthday, Stefan
expressesthisattitude.Applicationofthesecriteria
for reconstruction of the kinematic history of Bernhard Fu¨genschuh, Niko Froitzheim and
mountain belts paved Stefan Schmid’s future road Siegfried Siegesmund
viii FOREWORD:STEFANM.SCHMID
On-sitestructuralgeologylectureontheislandofElba.StefanisexplainingthekinematicsofthedetachmentatPunte
diZuccale.Hisrighthandisorientedparalleltosigma1.
Contents
Foreword:StefanM.Schmid vii
SIEGESMUND,S.,FU¨GENSCHUH,B.&FROITZHEIM,N.Introduction:analysingorogeny—the 1
Alpineapproach
SCHULZ,B.,STEENKEN,A.&SIEGESMUND,S.GeodynamicevolutionofanAlpineterrane—the 5
AustroalpinebasementtothesouthoftheTauernWindowasapartoftheAdriaticPlate
(easternAlps)
SIEGESMUND,S.,LAYER,P.,DUNKL,I.,VOLLBRECHT,A.,STEENKEN,A.,WEMMER,K.& 45
AHRENDT,H.ExhumationanddeformationhistoryofthelowercrustalsectionoftheValstrona
diOmegnaintheIvreaZone,southernAlps
FROITZHEIM,N.,DERKS,J.F.,WALTER,J.M.&SCIUNNACH,D.EvolutionofanEarlyPermian 69
extensionaldetachmentfaultfromsynintrusive,myloniticflowtobrittlefaulting(Grassi
DetachmentFault,OrobicAnticline,southernAlps,Italy)
VESELA´,P.,LAMMERER,B.,WETZEL,A.,SO¨LLNER,F.&GERDES,A.Post-VariscantoEarly 83
AlpinesedimentarybasinsintheTauernWindow(easternAlps)
DALLMEYER,R.D.,NEUBAUER,F.&FRITZ,H.TheMeliatasutureintheCarpathians: 101
regionalsignificanceandimplicationsfortheevolutionofhigh-pressurewedgeswithin
collisionalorogens
BERGER,A.&BOUSQUET,R.Subduction-relatedmetamorphismintheAlps:reviewofisotopic 117
agesbasedonpetrologyandtheirgeodynamicconsequences
TOMLJENOVIC´,B.,CSONTOS,L.,MA´RTON,E.&MA´RTON,P.Tectonicevolutionofthe 145
northwesternInternalDinaridesasconstrainedbystructuresandrotationofMedvednica
Mountains,NorthCroatia
GRO¨GER,H.R.,FU¨GENSCHUH,B.,TISCHLER,M.,SCHMID,S.M.&FOEKEN,J.P.T.Tertiary 169
coolingandexhumationhistoryintheMaramuresarea(internaleasternCarpathians,northern
Romania):thermochronologyandstructuraldata
ROSENBERG,C.L.&SCHNEIDER,S.ThewesternterminationoftheSEMPFault(easternAlps) 197
anditsbearingontheexhumationoftheTauernWindow
LAMMERER,B.,GEBRANDE,H.,LU¨SCHEN,E.&VESELA´,P.Acrustal-scalecross-sectionthrough 219
theTauernWindow(easternAlps)fromgeophysicalandgeologicaldata
USTASZEWSKI,M.&PFIFFNER,O.A.Neotectonicfaulting,uplift&seismicityinthecentraland 231
westernSwissAlps
PLEUGER,J.,NAGEL,T.J.,WALTER,J.M.,JANSEN,E.&FROITZHEIM,N.Ontheroleand 251
importanceoforogen-paralleland-perpendicularextension,transcurrentshearing,and
backthrustingintheMonteRosanappeandtheSouthernSteepBeltoftheAlps(Penniniczone,
SwitzerlandandItaly)
CIULAVU,M.,FERREIRO MA¨HLMANN,R.,SCHMID,S.M.,HOFMANN,H.,SEGHEDI,A.& 281
FREY,M.Metamorphicevolutionofaverylow-tolow-grademetamorphiccorecomplex
(Danubianwindow)intheSouthCarpathians
TISCHLER,M.,MATENCO,L.,FILIPESCU,S.,GRO¨GER,H.R.,WETZEL,A.&FU¨GENSCHUH,B. 317
TectonicsandsedimentationduringconvergenceoftheALCAPAandTisza–Daciacontinental
blocks:thePienidenappeemplacementanditsforedeep(N.Romania)
MIKES,T.,BA´LDI-BEKE,M.,KA´ZME´R,M.,DUNKL,I.&VON EYNATTEN,H.Calcareous 335
nannofossilageconstraintsonMioceneflyschsedimentationintheOuterDinarides(Slovenia,
Croatia,Bosnia-HerzegovinaandMontenegro)
NAGEL,T.J.Tertiarysubduction,collisionandexhumationrecordedintheAdulanappe, 365
centralAlps
vi CONTENTS
BOUSQUET,R.,OBERHA¨NSLI,R.,GOFFE´,B.,WIEDERKEHR,M.,KOLLER,F.,SCHMID,S.M., 393
SCHUSTER,R.,ENGI,M.,BERGER,A.&MARTINOTTI,G.Metamorphismofmetasediments
atthescaleofanorogen:akeytotheTertiarygeodynamicevolutionoftheAlps
MOLLI,G.NorthernApennine–Corsicaorogenicsystem:anupdatedoverview 413
Index 443