2006 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
LATE CENOZOIC TECTONICS OF SLOVENIA: STRUCTURAL STYLES AT THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE ADRIATIC MICROPLATE
verfasst von : Marko Vrabec, László Fodor
Erschienen in: The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Tectonics and Hazards
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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We describe the structures and styles of deformation at the northeastern margin of the Adria microplate during Miocene to recent times. Throughout the Miocene, deformation induced by Adria-Europe convergence was partitioned between thrusting in the Dinaric and South-Alpine belts and eastward escape in front of the Adriatic indenter, north of the Periadriatic fault zone. At the Miocene-Pliocene transition, a temporary termination of tectonic escape and the onset of Adria counterclockwise rotation triggered a major change in regional tectonics. At that time, major strike-slip and contractional deformation started between rigid Adria and the Periadriatic fault, accompanied by uplift, folding, strike-slip basin formation, and, perhaps, rigid-block rotation. There is a gradual eastward change in structural style from head-on thrusting in the Italian Alps to oblique and then to predominately strike-slip deformation in the Dinaric and Pannonian regions of Slovenia. Distribution of recent seismicity and first results of GPS measurements suggest that this, or a similar, mode of deformation is still active.