Continuity and Episodicity in the Early Alpine Tectonic Evolution of the Western Carpathians: How Large‐Scale Processes Are Expressed by the Orogenic Architecture and Rock Record Data

2018/07/01 by Dušan Plašienka

paper · doi:10.1029/2017tc004779

Abstract

Key Points Limited Cenozoic shortening of the Western Carpathians facilitates a comprehensive tectonic model of their pre‐Late Eocene evolution Western Carpathian orogeny was driven by pull of the Meliata oceanic slab and by the northward drift of Adria Multiple rock record data provide valuable constraints for evolutionary tectonic models of collisional orogens

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