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Recent Reactivation of Variscan Tectonic Zones: A Case of Rodl-Kaplice-Blanice Fault System (Bohemian Massif, Austria/Czech Republic)
The Rodl-Kaplice-Blanice fault system (RKB) of Variscan shear origin, repeatedly active since the Late Paleozoic to the Recent, is expressed by a...
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Tectonically Significant Fault Zones in Central Europe (Germany, Czech Republic and Poland) and Their Surface and Subsurface Outcrops: Franconian Line, Hronov-Porici Fault, Sudetic Marginal Fault and Lusatian Fault
This chapter describes and documents four main fault zones in central Europe and their outcrops in (sub)surface as a geological field guide. These up...
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Two-phase late Paleozoic magmatism (~ 313–312 and ~ 299–298 Ma) in the Lusatian Block and its relation to large scale NW striking fault zones: evidence from zircon U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS geochronology, bulk rock- and zircon chemistry
Late Paleozoic (Variscan) magmatism is widespread in Central Europe. The Lusatian Block is located in the NE Bohemian Massif and it is part of the...
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Polyphase Permo-Carboniferous magmatism adjacent to the Intra-Sudetic Fault: constraints from U–Pb SHRIMP zircon study of felsic subvolcanic intrusions in the Intra-Sudetic Basin, SW Poland
The SHRIMP U–Pb dating of zircons from felsic subvolcanic rocks in the Carboniferous formations of the Intra-Sudetic Basin in SW Poland verifies...
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The Atlas-East Variscan -Elbe shear system and its role in the formation of the pull-apart Late Palaeozoic basins
The Variscan orogeny occurred as a result of the Late Devonian to Late Carboniferous collision and accretion of Gondwana-derived microcontinents and...
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Structural style and neotectonic activity along the Harz Boundary Fault, northern Germany: a multimethod approach integrating geophysics, outcrop data and numerical simulations
We present new evidence for neotectonic activity along the Harz Boundary Fault, a Cretaceous reverse fault that represents a key structure in...
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Three age ranges of Cenozoic basaltic rocks from Lower Silesia (SW Poland) based on 40Ar/39Ar step-heating data
The precise ages of Cenozoic basaltic rocks from 20 localities (24 samples) in south-western Poland were studied by means of the 40 Ar/ 39 Ar isotope...
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From pilot knowledge via integrated reservoir characterization to utilization perspectives of deep geothermal reservoirs: the 3D model of Groß Schönebeck (North German Basin)
The Groß Schönebeck site in the North German Basin serves as research platform to study the geothermal potential of deeply buried Permian reservoir...
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Present-day tectonic stress from borehole breakouts in the North-Sudetic Basin (northern Bohemian Massif, SW Poland) and its regional context
We analyze borehole breakouts in 18 boreholes in the North-Sudetic Basin (NSB), located on the Lower Silesian tectonic block, to provide the first...
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Identifying Neotectonic Motions in Germany Using Discontinuity-corrected GNSS Data
The crustal motions throughout Germany have not yet been fully understood because the research scope of previous studies often focuses only on some...
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Paleostress reconstruction of faults recorded in the Niedźwiedzia Cave (Sudetes): insights into Alpine intraplate tectonic of NE Bohemian Massif
Brittle structures identified within the largest karstic cave of the Sudetes (the Niedźwiedzia Cave) were studied to reconstruct the paleostress...
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U–Pb ages of magmatic and detrital zircon of the Döhlen Basin: geological history of a Permian strike-slip basin in the Elbe Zone (Germany)
The post-orogenic evolution of Variscan Central Europe is characterized by the formation of numerous basins. The early Permian Döhlen Basin is...
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Zircon trace element fingerprint of changing tectonic regimes in Permian rhyolites from the Central European Lowlands
The late Carboniferous/early Permian post-collisional rhyolites (305–285 Ma) that formed in Central Europe have generally similar whole rock...
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Late Palaeozoic strike-slip tectonics versus oroclinal bending at the SW outskirts of Baltica: case of the Variscan belt’s eastern end in Poland
Geophysical and geological data from the eastern sector of the Central European Variscan belt are presented and reviewed in the regional tectonic...
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High-resolution coastal hazard assessment along the French Riviera from co-seismic tsunamis generated in the Ligurian fault system
The French Riviera is a densely populated and touristic coast. It is also one of the most seismically active areas of the Western Mediterranean. This...
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Thermochronological constraints on the post-Variscan exhumation history of the southeastern Bohemian Massif (Waldviertel and Weinsberg Forest, Austria): palaeogeographic and geomorphologic implications
Resolving the Mesozoic and Cenozoic palaeogeography and geomorphologic development of outcrop** Variscan basement is a pre-condition for the...
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Local radon flux maxima in the quaternary sediments of Schleswig–Holstein (Germany)
This paper presents radon flux profiles from four regions in Schleswig–Holstein (Northern Germany). Three of these regions are located over...
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Upper crustal fluids in a large fault system: microstructural, trace element and oxygen isotope study on multi-phase vein quartz at the Bavarian Pfahl, SE Germany
Fault systems are zones of crustal weakness and are used as pathways for ascending hydrothermal fluids. One impressive example is the more than 150...
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Variscan lamprophyres of the South Armorican Domain and comparison with lamprophyres of the Western European Variscan belt
Late to post-orogenic lamprophyres of the European Variscides attest variable compositions of the mantle beneath the structural zones of the belt....
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Sedimentology of the Jura Molasse: Miocene tidal clastics and freshwater carbonates from the Tramelan-2 Borehole, NW Switzerland
The Tramelan-2 borehole (Canton Bern, Switzerland) continuously cored a 275.60 m sequence of Palaeogene to Neogene sediments, providing a rare...
