TY  - JOUR
A1  - Voigt, Thomas
A1  - Kley, Jonas
A1  - Voigt, Silke
T1  - Dawn and dusk of Late Cretaceous basin inversion in central Europe
T2  - Solid earth discussions
N2  - Central Europe was affected by a compressional tectonic event in the Late Cretaceous, caused by the convergence of Iberia and Europe. Basement uplifts, inverted graben structures and newly formed marginal troughs are the main expressions of crustal shortening. Although the maximum activity occurred in a short period between 90 and 75 Ma, the exact timing of this event is still unclear. Dating of start and end of basin inversion is very different depending on the applied method. On the basis of borehole data, facies and thickness maps, the timing of basin re-organisation was reconstructed for several basins in Central Europe. The obtained data point to a synchronous start of basin inversion already at 95 Ma (Cenomanian), 5 Million years earlier than commonly assumed. The end of the Late Cretaceous compressional event is more difficult to pinpoint, because regional uplift and salt migration disturb the signal of shifting marginal troughs. Unconformities of Late Campanian to Paleogene age on inverted structures indicate slowly declining uplift rates.
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62831
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-628310
SN  - 1869-9537
N1  - This work was in part funded by German Research Foundation grants KL 495/9 and DFG 5215834. The European Union financially supported research in the Bohemian-Saxonian Cretaceous Basin in the frame of two projects (GRACE and ResiBil).
N1  - Begutachteter Artikel erschienen in: Solid earth, 12.2021, Nr. 6, S. 1443–1471, doi: 10.5194/se-12-1443-2021
VL  - 12
SP  - 1
EP  - 41
PB  - Copernicus Publ.
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -