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    Erosional history of the Karkonosze Granite Massif - Constraints from adjacent sedimentary basins and thermochronology

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    Authors
    Migon, P.
    Danišík, Martin
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Migon, P. and Danišík, M. 2012. Erosional history of the Karkonosze Granite Massif - Constraints from adjacent sedimentary basins and thermochronology. Geological Quarterly. 56 (3): pp. 441-456.
    Source Title
    Geological Quarterly
    DOI
    10.7306/gq.1032
    ISSN
    1641-7291
    School
    John de Laeter Centre
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53575
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The long-term erosional history of the Karkonosze Granite Massif is revised and reconstructed using different sources of information, including the sedimentary record of adjacent basins, previously published low-temperature thermochronological data and geomorphic features. Although the evidence is still incomplete, this work has identified a number of intervals, of unequal duration, characterized by different denudation regimes and rates. Several major phases of rapid exhumation are inferred - in the Permian and the Early Triassic as seen in the sedimentary record, and in the Late Cretaceous as shown by both the thermochronological and sedimentary records. Neotectonic uplift of the Karkonosze Mts. in the late Cenozoic is not recorded in the thermochronological record and there is no evidence of any accelerated denudation close to the massif. Apatite fission track data show that >~3.6 km of rock must have been eroded since the Turonian, while the results of zircon (U-Th)/He analysis suggest that in places erosion of >~6 km of rock must have taken place. This picture differs from previous est imates of denudat ion which suggested that only 2-2.5 km has been eroded from the axi al part of the Karkonosze dome since the exposure of granite batholith in the Permian.

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