Backstripping dip-slip fault histories: apparent slip rates for the Miocene of the Vienna Basin
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Analysis of deformational histories along polyphase reactivated faults commonly is based on the dating of cross-cutting relationships using relative ages of offset strata or geochronological ages of syntectonically grown minerals within fault planes. However, ten Veen and Postma (1999) and ten Veen and Kleinspehn (2000) introduced a new approach to reconstructing the vertical component of synsedimentary fault movements by geohistory analysis of sedimentary sections from both the hanging wall and the footwall blocks. The present contribution further elaborates this method to calculate apparent dip-slip rates for given time slices within sedimentary basins, and to quantify several distinct phases of faulting events in the Miocene Vienna Basin. This demonstrates the applicability of this method to transtensional basins.
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