Reconstruction of Cenozoic paleostress fields and revised tectonic history in the northern part of the Central Western Carpathians (the Spiéská Magura and Východné Tatry Mountains)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 211-225

  Vojtko, Rastislav ^a   Tokárováá, Eva ^a   Sliva, Čubomír ^a   Peéková, Ivana ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Central Western Carpathians; fault slip data; neotectonics; paleostress reconstruction; Spi sk Magura Mts; structural analysis; V chodn Tatry Mts

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EOCENE; FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MIOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; OLIGOCENE; PALEOSTRESS; QUATERNARY; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TRIASSIC; UPLIFT;

CARPATHIAN BASIN; CARPATHIANS; TATRA MOUNTAINS; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

EID: 77954251403     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10096-010-0012-5     Document Type: Article

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