The Austro-Alpine Quartzphyllites and Related Palaeozoic Formations

  • Neubauer F
  • Sassi F
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The Austro-Alpine quartzphyllites and related clastic- and volcanic-rich sequences are interpreted as the infilling of an Early Ordovician to Early Carboniferous basin. The basin may have been initially formed as a back-arc basin on a Late Cadomian/Pan-African metamorphic crust during the Ordovician. A pulse of renewed rifting during Silurian and Early Devonian probably led to the opening of a nearby oceanic basin and formation of a passive margin which is mainly represented by a Middle to Late Devonian carbonate platform. Contraction and basin closure occurred during Visean to Early Westphalian. It was accompanied by: (i) rapid subsidence due to lithospheric loading by thrust sheets, (ii) formation of a foredeep with orogenic flysch deposits in front of incoming thrust sheets, and (iii) weak metamorphic processes.

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Neubauer, F., & Sassi, F. P. (1993). The Austro-Alpine Quartzphyllites and Related Palaeozoic Formations. In Pre-Mesozoic Geology in the Alps (pp. 423–439). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84640-3_25

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