Tectonic aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian system /
[Book]
edited by S. Siegesmund, B. Fügenschuh and N. Froitzheim.
Tulsa, OK :
Distributor for individual and Corporate orders, North America, AAPG Bookstore,
2008.
viii, 448 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;
25 cm.
Geological Society special publication ;
no. 298
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : analysing orogeny -- the Alpine approach / S. Siegesmund, B. Fügenshuch & N. Froitzheim -- Geodynamic evolution of an Alpine terrane -- the Austroalpine basement to the south of the Tauern window as a part of the Adriatic plate (eastern Alps) / B. Schulz, A. Steenken & S. Siegesmund -- Exhumation and deformation history of the lower crustal section of the Valstrona di Omegna in the Ivrea zone, southern Alps / S. Siegesmund [and others] -- Evolution of an early Permian extensional detachment fault from synintrusive, mylonitic flow to brittle faulting (Grassi detachment fault, Orobic anticline, southern Alps, Italy) / N. Froitzheim [and others] -- Post-Variscan to early Alpine sedimentary basins in the Tauern window (eastern Alps) / P. Veselá [and others] -- The Meliata suture in the Carpathians : regional significance and implications for the evolution of high-pressure wedges within collisional orogens / R.D. Dallmeyer, F. Neubauer & H. Fritz -- Subduction-related metamorphism in the Alps : review of isotopic ages based on petrology and their geodynamic consequences / A. Berger & R. Bousquet -- Tectonic evolution of the northwestern internal Dinarides as constrained by structures and rotation of Medvednica Mountains, North Croatia / B. Tomljenović [and others] -- Tertiary cooling and exhumation history in the Maramures area (internal eastern Carpathians, northern Romania) : thermochronology and structural data / H.R. Gröger [and others] -- The western termination of the SEMP fault (eastern Alps) and its bearing on the exhumation of the Tauern window / C.L. Rosenberg & S. Schneider -- A crustal-scale cross-section through the Tauern window (eastern Alps) from geophysical and geological data / B. Lammerer [and others] -- Neotectonic faulting, uplift & seismicity in the central and western Swiss Alps / M. Ustaszewski, & O.A. Pfiffner -- On the role and importance of orogen-parallel and -perpendicular extension, transcurrent shearing, and backthrusting in the Monte Rosa nappe and the southern steep belt of the Alps (Penninic zone, Switzerland and Italy) / J. Pleuger [and others] -- Metamorphic evolution of a very low- to low-grade metamorphic core complex (Danubian window) in the South Carpathians / M. Ciulavu [and others] -- Tectonics and sedimentation during convergence of the ALCAPA and Tisza-Dacia continental blocks : the Pienide nappe emplacement and its foredeep (N. Romania) / M. Tischler [and others] -- Calcareous nannofossil age constraints on Miocene flysch sedimentation in the outer Dinarides (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro) / T. Mikes [and others] -- Tertiary subduction, collision and exhumation recorded in the Adula nappe, central Alps / T.J. Nagel -- Metamorphism of metasediments at the scale of an orogen : a key to the Tertiary geodynamic evolution of the Alps / R. Bousquet [and others] -- Northern Apennine-Corsica orogenic system : an updated overview / G. Molli.
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"The Alps, Carpathians and Dinarides form a complex, highly curved and strongly coupled orogenic system. Motions of the European and Adriatic plates gave birth to a number of 'oceans' and microplates that led to several distinct stages of collision. Although the Alps serve as a classical example of collisional orogens, it becomes clearer that substantial questions on their evolution can only be answered in the Carpathians and Dinarides. Our understanding of the geodynamic evolution of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian System has substantially improved and will continue to develop; this is thanks to collaboration between eastern and western Europe, but also due to the application of new methods and the launch of research initiatives.