Subsurface gravity measurements in a deep intra-alpine tertiary basin

Hussain, A.; Walach, Georg

doi:10.1016/0016-7142(80)90028-9

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“…The uppermost reflector probably corresponds to the boundary between sandstones and calcareous shales, up to 50 m thick, which occur immediately below the seam. Hussain and Walach (1980) emphasize the high reflectivity of this interface. The thickness of the lower complex increases southward from a few meters along the northern basin margin to approximately 800 m (0.3 s TWT) close to synsedimentary normal faults near the basin center (1 km north of well Weisskirchen; Figs.…”

Section: Sedimentation In the Fohnsdorf Basinmentioning

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The Neogene Fohnsdorf Basin: basin formation and basin inversion during lateral extrusion in the Eastern Alps (Austria)

Sachsenhofer

Kogler

Polesny³

et al. 2000

International Journal of Earth Sciences

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The evolution of the early/middle Miocene Fohnsdorf Basin has been studied using borehole data, reflection seismic lines, and vitrinite reflectance. The basin is located along the sinistral Mur-Mürz fault system and probably formed as an asymmetric pull-apart basin, which was subsequently modified by halfgraben tectonics, as a consequence of eastward lateral extrusion. Sedimentation started with the deposition of fluvio-deltaic sediments. Thick coal accumulated in the northwestern basin. Thereafter subsidence rates increased dramatically with the formation of a lake several hundred meters deep. The lake was filled mainly from the north with more than 1500 m of sediments showing a coarsening-upward trend due to southward prograding deltaic lobes. A sequence of more than 1000 m of boulder gravels (Blockschotter) in the southeastern part of the basin are interpreted as the upper part of a coarse-grained fan delta succession, which accumulated along a normal fault along the southern basin margin. Fan deltas reached the central basin only during the early stages of sedimentation and during the late stages of basin formation. Miocene heat flow was approximately 65±70 mW/m 2 , which is significantly lower than in other basins along the Mur-Mürz fault system. The present-day southwestern basin margin is a recent feature, which is related to transpression along the dextral Pöls-Lavanttal fault system. It is formed by reverse faults constituting the northeastern part of a flower structure. Miocene sediments in the Feeberg valley are preserved along its southwestern part. Uplift of the central part of the flower structure was at least 2.4 km. North± south compression resulted in the deformation of the basin fill, uplift of the E/W-trending basement ridge separating the Fohnsdorf and Seckau basins, and in the erosion of 1750 m of sediments along the northern basin margin.

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Section: Sedimentation In the Fohnsdorf Basinmentioning

confidence: 95%