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The Nysa-Morava Zone: an active tectonic domain with Late Cenozoic sedimentary grabens in the Western Carpathians’ foreland (NE Bohemian Massif)

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We give an interpretive review of the geological evolution of the Nysa-Morava Zone (NMZ)—a Late Cenozoic tectonically active region of the NE Bohemian Massif located at its contact with the Western Carpathians’ orogenic front. This crustal domain, delimited by generally NW–SE-striking fault system, is characterised by Oligo-Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene volcanic activity, regionally anomalous, weak historical and present-day seismicity and increased CO2 flux. The NMZ hosts several elongated, mostly NW–SE-trending, graben-like sedimentary basins (Upper Morava Basin System), which are filled by more than 300-m-thick succession of clastic fluvial/lacustrine sediments of Pliocene–Quaternary age. Based on geometric relations, basin architecture, coincidence of seismicity with CO2 escape and sparse focal mechanism data, a model is proposed, which explains this active domain as a transfer zone developed between major WNW–ESE and NW–SE faults in a right-lateral transpressional setting. It is suggested that slow horizontal slip at these faults resulted in local permutations of the largest and medium stress directions and formation of transtensional crustal domains in the NMZ. Moreover, relation of the NMZ to the Alpine–Carpathian system and sedimentary grabens in its foreland is discussed. The absence of Paleogene and Lower Miocene deposits suggests that subsidence in the NMZ was commenced later than in the European Cenozoic Rift System (ECRIS), which is in agreement with later thrusting in Western Carpathians at ~17 Ma. The quantitative contrasts to the ECRIS in terms of faulting and subsidence rates are explained by the absence of lithospheric/crustal thinning in the NMZ.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by Czech Science Foundation Project P210/12/0573, CzechGeo/EPOS Project LM2010008 and ESF/MSMT Project CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0052. At IRSM, this work was funded as a part of conceptual development of research organisation RVO: 67985891. We thank J. Zedník (IG Prague), Yan Jia (ZAMG Vienna), J. Sekereš (Bratislava), J. Rušajová (IGN Ostrava), P. Kolínský (IRSM Prague), J. Trojanowski (IGF Warsaw) and their institutions for providing their catalogues and/or seismic data from selected events. Many thanks to Laszlo Fodor and an anonymous reviewer for their detailed reviews of early version of the manuscript.

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    Petr Špaček, Jan Švancara & Jana Pazdírková

  2. Department of Geology, Palacký University in Olomouc, 17. listopadu 12, 77146, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Ondřej Bábek & Jan Sedláček

  3. Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, V Holešovičkách 41, 18209, Prague, Czech Republic

    Petra Štěpančíková

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Špaček, P., Bábek, O., Štěpančíková, P. et al. The Nysa-Morava Zone: an active tectonic domain with Late Cenozoic sedimentary grabens in the Western Carpathians’ foreland (NE Bohemian Massif). Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 104, 963–990 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1121-7

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