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    Late Miocene increasing exhumation rates in the eastern part of the Alps – implications from low temperature thermochronology

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    Wölfler, A.
    Kurz, W.
    Fritz, H.
    Glotzbach, C.
    Danišík, Martin
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Wölfler, A. and Kurz, W. and Fritz, H. and Glotzbach, C. and Danišík, M. 2016. Late Miocene increasing exhumation rates in the eastern part of the Alps – implications from low temperature thermochronology. Terra Nova. 28 (5): pp. 297-305.
    Source Title
    Terra Nova
    DOI
    10.1111/ter.12221
    ISSN
    0954-4879
    School
    John de Laeter CoE in Mass Spectrometry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51268
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    Abstract

    A new set of apatite fission-track and apatite (U–Th)/He data reveals a hitherto undated late Miocene exhumation pulse in the eastern part of the Eastern Alps. While distinct parts of the study area, including the Seckauer Tauern, have been at near surface conditions (<100 °C) since the Eocene, the neighbouring Niedere Tauern experienced enhanced cooling and exhumation in the middle Miocene and again at the late Miocene/Pliocene boundary. Middle Miocene exhumation is interpreted as a result of tectonic escape and convergence that operated simultaneously during lateral extrusion of the Eastern Alps. As the higher late Miocene/Pliocene exhumation rates are restricted to a single tectonic block, namely the Niedere Tauern, we infer a tectonic trigger that is probably related to a change in the external stress field that affected the Alps during this time.

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