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Eo-Alpine metamorphism and the ‘mid-Miocene thermal event’ in the Western Carpathians (Slovakia): new evidence from multiple thermochronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2011

MARTIN DANIŠÍK ,
MILAN KOHÚT ,
NOREEN J. EVANS  and
BRAD J. MCDONALD
MARTIN DANIŠÍK*
Affiliation:
John de Laeter Centre for Isotope Research, Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, The University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
MILAN KOHÚT
Affiliation:
Dionýz Štúr State Institute of Geology, Mlynská dolina 1, 817 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
NOREEN J. EVANS
Affiliation:
John de Laeter Centre for Isotope Research, Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, ARRC, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, WA 6151, Australia
BRAD J. MCDONALD
Affiliation:
John de Laeter Centre for Isotope Research, Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, ARRC, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, WA 6151, Australia
*
†Author for correspondence: m.danisik@waikato.ac.nz
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Abstract

A combination of zircon (U–Th)/He (ZHe), apatite fission track (AFT) and apatite (U–Th)/He (AHe) dating methods is applied to constrain the metamorphic and exhumation history of the Tatric part of the Branisko Mountains in the Western Carpathians. ZHe ages from the basement samples prove the basement experienced a very low-grade to low-grade Eo-Alpine metamorphic overprint in mid-Cretaceous times. Miocene AFT and AHe ages found in the basement and in the Palaeogene sediments conclusively demonstrate that the Branisko Mts experienced a ‘mid-Miocene thermal event’. This thermal event had a regional character and was related to magmatic and/or burial heating that exposed the sediment and basement samples to ~ 120–130°C and ~ 100–190°C, respectively.

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exhumationzircon and apatite (U–Th)/He datingapatite fission track datingBranisko MtsWestern Carpathians
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Geological Magazine , Volume 149 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 158 - 171
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