Plašienka D., Sýkora M., Aubrecht R., Krobicki M. & Józsa Š., 2010: Reinterpretation of the lithostratigraphy and tectonic position of the Mariková Klippen (Middle Váh Valley, western Slovakia). Acta Geologica Slovaca, 2, 1, 1–9.
Reinterpretation of the lithostratigraphy and tectonic position of the Mariková Klippen (Middle Váh Valley, western Slovakia)
Reintepretácia litostratigrafie a tektonickej pozície marikovských bradiel (stredné Považie, Slovensko)
Dušan Plašienka1, Milan Sýkora1, Roman Aubrecht1,2, Michał Krobicki3 & Štefan Józsa1
1Department of Geology and Palaeontology, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina G, SK-842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia; plasienka@fns.uniba.sk, sykora@fns.uniba.sk, aubrecht@fns.uniba.sk, jozsa@fns.uniba.sk
2Geophysical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-845 28 Bratislava, Slovakia
3Faculty of Stratigraphy and Regional Geology, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Al. Mickiewicza 30, PL-30-059 Kraków, Poland; krobicki@geol.agh.edu.pl
Abstract
Tectonic position and lithostratigraphic content of the Mariková Klippen group, occurring around the Michalová Hill near Dolná Mariková village in western Slovakia, were revised. New mapping and sampling showed that the Mariková Klippen consist of the Kysuca Unit and the newly defined Mariková Unit. Both are interpreted as being originally Oravic units of the Pieniny Klippen Belt (PKB). They form a tectonic outlier inserted into an imbricated zone within the Magura Belt of the Outer Western Carpathians, about 2 km north of the PKB s.s. The Mariková Unit consists of Triassic dolomites and quartzites, Middle Jurassic crinoidal limestone (Smolegowa Limestone Fm.), grey, massive microoncoidal limestone (Mariková Limestone Fm. – new name) and dark spotted mid-Cretaceous marlstones (Kapuśnica Fm.). The Mariková Succession shows close relations to the widespread Czorsztyn Unit of the PKB. Its position within the Magura Belt is explained by nappe thrusting of Oravic units over the Magura Unit and then their incorporation into an imbricated transpression zone.
Key words: Western Carpathians, Pieniny Klippen Belt, Mariková Klippen, lithostratigraphy, tectonics
Manuscript received: 2009-10-29
Revised version accepted: 2010-03-15
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