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Neogene and Quaternary development of the Turiec Basin and landscape in its catchment: a tentative mass balance model

In: Geologica Carpathica, vol. 62, no. 4
Michal Kovac - Jozef Hok - Jozef Minar - Rastislav Vojtko - Miroslav Bielik - Radovan Pipik - Milos Rakus - Jan Kral - Martin Sujan - Silvia Kralikova

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Year, pages: 2011, 361 - 379
Language: eng
Keywords:
Quaternary, Neogene, Western Carpathians, Turiec Basin, landforms development, basin analysis, mass balance
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The development of the Turiec Basin and landscape evolution in its catchment has been reconstructed by methods of geological research (structural geology, sedimentology, paleoecology, and geochronological data) as well as by geophysics and geomorphology. The basin and its surrounding mountains were a subject of a mass balance study during periods of tectonic activity, accompanied by considerable altitudinal differentiation of relief and also during quiet periods, characterized by a development of planation surfaces in the mountains. The coarse clastic alluvial fans deposited beneath the offshore pelitic sediments document the rapid Middle Miocene uplift of mountains on the margin of the Turiec Basin. The Late Miocene fine-grained sedimentation represents the main fill of this basin and its origin was associated with the formation of planation surfaces in the surrounding mountains. The rapid uplift of the western and northern parts of the catchment area during the latest Miocene and Early Pliocene times further generated the deposition of coarse-grained alluvial fans. The Late Pliocene basin inversion, due to uplift of the whole Western Carpathians mountain chain, was associated with the formation of the Early Quaternary pediment and ultimately with the formation of the Turiec river terrace systems.
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Kovac, M., Hok, J., Minar, J., Vojtko, R., Bielik, M., Pipik, R., Rakus, M., Kral, J., Sujan, M., Kralikova, S. 2011. Neogene and Quaternary development of the Turiec Basin and landscape in its catchment: a tentative mass balance model. In Geologica Carpathica, vol. 62, no.4, pp. 361-379. 1335-0552. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10096-011-0027-6

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Kovac, M., Hok, J., Minar, J., Vojtko, R., Bielik, M., Pipik, R., Rakus, M., Kral, J., Sujan, M., Kralikova, S. (2011). Neogene and Quaternary development of the Turiec Basin and landscape in its catchment: a tentative mass balance model. Geologica Carpathica, 62(4), 361-379. 1335-0552. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10096-011-0027-6
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