Original paper
Apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He dating of teschenite intrusions gives time constraints on accretionary processes and development of planation surfaces in the Outer Western Carpathians
Danisík, Martin; Pánek, Tomáš; Matýsek, Dalibor; Dunkl, István; Frisch, Wolfgang
Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Volume 52 Issue 3 (2008), p. 273 - 289
published: Sep 22, 2008
DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2008/0052-0273
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Abstract
The age of planation surfaces in the Podbeskydská pahorkatina Upland in the Outer Western Carpathians (OWC, Czech Republic) is constrained by low-temperature thermochronological dating methods for the first time. Our apatite fission track and apatite (U-Th)/He data measured on teschenite intrusions show that planation surfaces in the study area formed in post-Pannonian time (>7.1 Ma) and are therefore younger than traditionally believed. This contradicts the classical concepts, which stipulate that a large regional planation surface of Pannonian age (the so-called “midmountain level”) developed in the whole Western Carpathians. Geodynamic implications of our data are the following: (i) the investigated Těšín and Godula nappes of the OWC were buried and thermally overprinted in the accretionary wedge in different ways, and consequently experienced different cooling histories. This indicates a dynamic basin setting with an active accretionary process in a subduction zone; (ii) accretionary processes in the OWC were active already during Late Eocene times.