Touching the Detachment

• Authors: ČERNÝ Jan; MELICHAR Rostislav; KNÍŽEK Martin; JANEČKA Jiří
• Year of publication: 2011
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Trabajos de Geología
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Web: plný text
• Field: Geology and mineralogy
• Keywords: detachment; fault core; stratigraphic separation diagram; Barrandian; Lower Paleozoic
• Description: The Prague Synform (Ordovician to Devonian) was folded and thrusted during the Variscan orogeny. This paper is focused on one of these thrusts: the Ockov Fault. The creation of a stratigraphic separation diagram and detailed study of new tunnel exposures has brought about the recognition of the eastern prolongation of the fault, as well as its flat-ramp-flat geometry and thrusting nature.

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