Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29j..92.&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 10, pp. 92-1, CiteID 1452, DOI 10.1029/2002GL014911
Physics
Geophysics
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Exploration Geophysics: Continental Structures (8109, 8110), Exploration Geophysics: Seismic Methods (3025), Tectonophysics: Continental Contractional Orogenic Belts, Seismology: Continental Crust (1242), Information Related To Geographic Region: Europe
Scientific paper
The Alps are considered as a classical example for an orogen created by continental plate collision. In this study we present new images obtained from deep seismic reflection profiling in the Eastern Alps between Munich and Venice which give rise to examine and revise existing concepts. The seismic sections exhibit a prominent bi-verging reflection pattern at crustal scale. A major ramp-like structure, outcropping at the Inn-Valley fault, can be traced southward over 80 km into the mountain root where relics of the subducted Penninic ocean are expected. New models of the evolution of the Eastern Alps show an upper/lower crustal decoupling along transcrustal thrust faults with opposite thrust directions of both the European and the Adriatic-African continents.
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